URL decoding

URL decoding
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.

This task   (the reverse of   URL encoding   and distinct from   URL parser)   is to provide a function or mechanism to convert an URL-encoded string into its original unencoded form.

Test cases

•   The encoded string   "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"   should be reverted to the unencoded form   "http://foo bar/".

•   The encoded string   "google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1"   should revert to the unencoded form   "google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá".

•   The encoded string   "%25%32%35"   should revert to the unencoded form   "%25" and not "%".

11l

F url_decode(s)
   V r = ‘’
   V i = 0
   L i < s.len
      I s[i] == ‘%’
         [Byte] b
         L i < s.len & s[i] == ‘%’
            i++
            b.append(Int(s[i.+2], radix' 16))
            i += 2
         r ‘’= b.decode(‘utf-8’)
      E
         r ‘’= s[i]
         i++
   R r

print(url_decode(‘http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F’))
print(url_decode(‘https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80’))

Output:

http://foo bar/
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Транспайлер

ABAP

REPORT Z_DECODE_URL.

DATA: lv_encoded_url TYPE string VALUE 'http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F',
      lv_decoded_url TYPE string.

CALL METHOD CL_HTTP_UTILITY=>UNESCAPE_URL
  EXPORTING
    ESCAPED   = lv_encoded_url
  RECEIVING
    UNESCAPED = lv_decoded_url.

WRITE: 'Encoded URL: ', lv_encoded_url, /, 'Decoded URL: ', lv_decoded_url.

Action!

PROC Append(CHAR ARRAY s CHAR c)
  s(0)==+1
  s(s(0))=c
RETURN

CHAR FUNC GetCharFromHex(CHAR c1,c2)
  CHAR ARRAY hex=['0 '1 '2 '3 '4 '5 '6 '7 '8 '9 'A 'B 'C 'D 'E 'F]
  BYTE i,res

  res=0
  FOR i=0 TO 15
  DO
    IF c1=hex(i) THEN res==+i LSH 4 FI
    IF c2=hex(i) THEN res==+i FI
  OD
RETURN (res)

PROC Decode(CHAR ARRAY in,out)
  BYTE i
  CHAR c

  out(0)=0
  i=1
  WHILE i<=in(0)
  DO
    c=in(i)
    i==+1
    IF c='+ THEN
      Append(out,' )
    ELSEIF c='% THEN
      c=GetCharFromHex(in(i),in(i+1))
      i==+2
      Append(out,c)
    ELSE
      Append(out,c)
    FI
  OD
RETURN

PROC PrintInv(CHAR ARRAY a)
  BYTE i

  IF a(0)>0 THEN
    FOR i=1 TO a(0)
    DO
      Put(a(i)%$80)
    OD
  FI
RETURN

PROC Test(CHAR ARRAY in)
  CHAR ARRAY out(256)

  PrintInv("input  ")
  PrintF(" %S%E",in)

  Decode(in,out)
  PrintInv("decoded")
  PrintF(" %S%E%E",out)
RETURN

PROC Main()
  Test("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")
  Test("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo+bar%2F*_-.html")
RETURN

Output:

Screenshot from Atari 8-bit computer

input   http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F
decoded http://foo bar/

input   http%3A%2F%2Ffoo+bar%2F*_-.html
decoded http://foo bar/*_-.html

Ada

Library: AWS

with AWS.URL;
with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
procedure Decode is
   Encoded : constant String := "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F";
begin
   Put_Line (AWS.URL.Decode (Encoded));
end Decode;

Without external libraries:

package URL is
   function Decode (URL : in String) return String;
end URL;

package body URL is
   function Decode (URL : in String) return String is
      Buffer   : String (1 .. URL'Length);
      Filled   : Natural := 0;
      Position : Positive := URL'First;
   begin
      while Position in URL'Range loop
         Filled := Filled + 1;
 
        case URL (Position) is
            when '+' =>
               Buffer (Filled) := ' ';
               Position := Position + 1;
            when '%' =>
               Buffer (Filled) :=
                 Character'Val
                   (Natural'Value
                      ("16#" & URL (Position + 1 .. Position + 2) & "#"));
               Position := Position + 3;
            when others =>
               Buffer (Filled) := URL (Position);
               Position := Position + 1;
         end case;
      end loop;

      return Buffer (1 .. Filled);
   end Decode;
end URL;

with Ada.Command_Line,
     Ada.Text_IO;

with URL;

procedure Test_URL_Decode is
   use Ada.Command_Line, Ada.Text_IO;
begin
   if Argument_Count = 0 then
      Put_Line (URL.Decode ("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"));
   else
      for I in 1 .. Argument_Count loop
         Put_Line (URL.Decode (Argument (I)));
      end loop;
   end if;
end Test_URL_Decode;

ALGOL 68

Works with: ALGOL 68G version Any - tested with release 2.8.3.win32

Note: See the discussion page re displaying the results (which is mostly focused on the AWK solution but will apply elsewhere too).
For the second task example, this outputs the encoded UTF-8 characters, what you see depends on what you look at it with...

# returns c decoded as a hex digit #
PROC hex value = ( CHAR c )INT: IF   c >= "0" AND c <= "9" THEN        ABS c - ABS "0"
                                ELIF c >= "A" AND c <= "F" THEN 10 + ( ABS c - ABS "A" )
                                ELSE                            10 + ( ABS c - ABS "a" )
                                FI;

# returns the URL encoded string decoded - minimal error handling #
PROC url decode = ( STRING encoded )STRING:
     BEGIN
         [ LWB encoded : UPB encoded ]CHAR result;
         INT result pos  := LWB encoded;
         INT pos         := LWB encoded;
         INT max pos     := UPB encoded;
         INT max encoded := max pos - 3;
         WHILE pos <= UPB encoded
         DO
             IF encoded[ pos ] /= "%" AND pos <= max encoded
             THEN
                 # not a coded character #
                 result[ result pos ] := encoded[ pos ];
                 pos +:= 1
             ELSE
                 # have an encoded character # 
                 result[ result pos ] := REPR ( ( 16 * hex value( encoded[ pos + 1 ] ) )
                                              +        hex value( encoded[ pos + 2 ] )
                                             );
                 pos +:= 3
             FI;
             result pos +:= 1
         OD;
         result[ LWB result : result pos - 1 ]
     END # url decode # ;

# test the url decode procedure #
print( ( url decode( "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F" ),                 newline ) );
print( ( url decode( "google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1" ), newline ) )

Output:

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá

Apex

EncodingUtil.urlDecode('http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F', 'UTF-8');
EncodingUtil.urlDecode('google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1', 'UTF-8');

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá

AppleScript

Library: AppleScript Toolbox

AST URL decode "google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1"

Arturo

print decode.url "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"
print decode.url "google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1"

Output:

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá

AutoHotkey

UriDecode(Uri) {
    LoopOffset := 0
    VarLength := 0
    VarSetCapacity(Var, StrPut(Uri, "UTF-8"), 0)
    Loop Parse, Uri
    {
        If (A_Index < LoopOffset) {
            Continue
        }
        If (A_LoopField = Chr(37)) {
            Number := "0x" . SubStr(Uri, A_Index + 1, 2)
            LoopOffset := A_Index + 3
        }
        Else {
            Number := Ord(A_LoopField)
        }
        NumPut(Number, Var, VarLength++, "UChar")
    }
    Return StrGet(&Var, VarLength, "UTF-8")
}
MsgBox % UriDecode("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")
MsgBox % UriDecode("google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1")
MsgBox % UriDecode("%25%32%35")

AWK

# syntax:
awk ' 
BEGIN {
    str = "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F" # "http://foo bar/"
    printf("%s\n",str)
    len=length(str)
    for (i=1;i<=len;i++) {
      if ( substr(str,i,1) == "%") {
        L = substr(str,1,i-1) # chars to left of "%"
        M = substr(str,i+1,2) # 2 chars to right of "%"
        R = substr(str,i+3)   # chars to right of "%xx"
        str = sprintf("%s%c%s",L,hex2dec(M),R)
      }
    }
    printf("%s\n",str)
    exit(0)
}
function hex2dec(s,  num) {
    num = index("0123456789ABCDEF",toupper(substr(s,length(s)))) - 1
    sub(/.$/,"",s)
    return num + (length(s) ? 16*hex2dec(s) : 0)
} '

Output:

http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F
http://foo bar/

OR:

LC_ALL=C 
  echo "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F" | gawk -vRS='%[[:xdigit:]]{2}' '
  RT {RT = sprintf("%c",strtonum("0x" substr(RT, 2)))}
  {gsub(/+/," ");printf "%s", $0 RT}'

Output:

http://foo bar/

BaCon

FUNCTION Url_Decode$(url$)

    LOCAL result$

    SPLIT url$ BY "%" TO item$ SIZE total
    FOR x = 1 TO total-1
        result$ = result$ & CHR$(DEC(LEFT$(item$[x], 2))) & MID$(item$[x], 3)
    NEXT
    RETURN item$[0] & result$

END FUNCTION

PRINT Url_Decode$("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")
PRINT Url_Decode$("google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1")

Output:

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá

Bash

See #UNIX Shell

BBC BASIC

Works with: BBC BASIC for Windows

      PRINT FNurldecode("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")
      END
      
      DEF FNurldecode(url$)
      LOCAL i%
      REPEAT
        i% = INSTR(url$, "%", i%+1)
        IF i% THEN
          url$ = LEFT$(url$,i%-1) + \
          \      CHR$EVAL("&"+FNupper(MID$(url$,i%+1,2))) + \
          \      MID$(url$,i%+3)
        ENDIF
      UNTIL i% = 0
      = url$
      
      DEF FNupper(A$)
      LOCAL A%,C%
      FOR A% = 1 TO LEN(A$)
        C% = ASCMID$(A$,A%)
        IF C% >= 97 IF C% <= 122 MID$(A$,A%,1) = CHR$(C%-32)
      NEXT
      = A$

Output:

http://foo bar/

Bracmat

(     ( decode
      =   decoded hexcode notencoded
        .   :?decoded
          &   whl
            ' ( @(!arg:?notencoded "%" (% %:?hexcode) ?arg)
              & !decoded !notencoded chr$(x2d$!hexcode):?decoded
              )
          & str$(!decoded !arg)
      )
    & out$(decode$http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F)
);

Output:

http://foo bar/

C

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

inline int ishex(int x)
{
	return	(x >= '0' && x <= '9')	||
		(x >= 'a' && x <= 'f')	||
		(x >= 'A' && x <= 'F');
}

int decode(const char *s, char *dec)
{
	char *o;
	const char *end = s + strlen(s);
	int c;

	for (o = dec; s <= end; o++) {
		c = *s++;
		if (c == '+') c = ' ';
		else if (c == '%' && (	!ishex(*s++)	||
					!ishex(*s++)	||
					!sscanf(s - 2, "%2x", &c)))
			return -1;

		if (dec) *o = c;
	}

	return o - dec;
}

int main()
{
	const char *url = "http%3A%2F%2ffoo+bar%2fabcd";
	char out[strlen(url) + 1];

	printf("length: %d\n", decode(url, 0));
	puts(decode(url, out) < 0 ? "bad string" : out);

	return 0;
}

C#

using System;

namespace URLEncode
{
    internal class Program
    {
        private static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(Decode("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"));
        }

        private static string Decode(string uri)
        {
            return Uri.UnescapeDataString(uri);
        }
    }
}

Output:

http://foo bar/

C++

Library: Poco

Works with: g++

#include <string>
#include "Poco/URI.h"
#include <iostream>

int main( ) {
   std::string encoded( "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F" ) ;
   std::string decoded ;
   Poco::URI::decode ( encoded , decoded ) ;
   std::cout << encoded << " is decoded: " << decoded << " !" << std::endl ;
   return 0 ;
}

Output:

http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F is decoded: http://foo bar/ !

Caché ObjectScript

USER>Write $ZConvert("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F", "I", "URL")
http://foo bar/

Clojure

(java.net.URLDecoder/decode "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")

CoffeeScript

console.log decodeURIComponent "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F?name=Foo%20Barson"

> coffee foo.coffee 
http://foo bar/?name=Foo Barson

Common Lisp

(defun decode (string &key start)
  (assert (char= (char string start) #\%))
  (if (>= (length string) (+ start 3))
      (multiple-value-bind (code pos)
          (parse-integer string :start (1+ start) :end (+ start 3) :radix 16 :junk-allowed t)
        (if (= pos (+ start 3))
            (values (code-char code) pos)
            (values #\% (1+ start))))
      (values #\% (1+ start))))

(defun url-decode (url)
  (loop with start = 0
        for pos = (position #\% url :start start)
        collect (subseq url start pos) into chunks
        when pos
          collect (multiple-value-bind (decoded next) (decode url :start pos)
                    (setf start next)
                    (string decoded))
            into chunks
        while pos
        finally (return (apply #'concatenate 'string chunks))))

(url-decode "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")

Output:

"http://foo bar/"

Crystal

require "uri"

puts URI.decode "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"
puts URI.decode "google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1"

Output:

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá

D

import std.stdio, std.uri;

void main() {
    writeln(decodeComponent("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"));
}

http://foo bar/

Delphi

program URLEncoding;

{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

uses IdURI;

begin
  Writeln(TIdURI.URLDecode('http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F'));
end.

Elixir

IO.inspect URI.decode("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")
IO.inspect URI.decode("google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1")

Output:

"http://foo bar/"
"google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá"

Erlang

Built in.

34> http_uri:decode("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F").
"http://foo bar/"

F#

Translation of: C#

open System

let decode uri = Uri.UnescapeDataString(uri)

[<EntryPoint>]
let main argv =
    printfn "%s" (decode "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")
    0

Factor

USING: io kernel urls.encoding ;
IN: rosetta-code.url-decoding

"http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"
"google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1"
[ url-decode print ] bi@

Output:

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá

Free Pascal

function urlDecode(data: String): AnsiString;
var
  ch: Char;
  pos, skip: Integer;

begin
  pos := 0;
  skip := 0;
  Result := '';

  for ch in data do begin
    if skip = 0 then begin
      if (ch = '%') and (pos < data.length -2) then begin
        skip := 2;
        Result := Result + AnsiChar(Hex2Dec('$' + data[pos+2] + data[pos+3]));

      end else begin
        Result := Result + ch;
      end;

    end else begin
      skip := skip - 1;
    end;
    pos := pos +1;
  end;
end;

FreeBASIC

Translation of: Liberty BASIC

Translation of: Pascal

Const alphanum = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

Function ToDecimal (cadena As String, base_ As Uinteger) As Uinteger 
    Dim As Uinteger i, n, result = 0
    Dim As Uinteger inlength = Len(cadena)
    
    For i = 1 To inlength
        n = Instr(alphanum, Mid(Lcase(cadena),i,1)) - 1
        n *= (base_^(inlength-i))
        result += n
    Next 
    Return result
End Function

Function url2string(cadena As String) As String
    Dim As String c, nc, res
    
    For j As Integer = 1 To Len(cadena)
        c = Mid(cadena, j, 1)
        If c = "%" Then
            nc = Chr(ToDecimal((Mid(cadena, j+1, 2)), 16))
            res &= nc
            j += 2
        Else
            res &= c
        End If
    Next j
    Return res
End Function

Dim As String URL = "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"

Print "Supplied URL '"; URL; "'"
Print "URL decoding '"; url2string(URL); "'"

URL = "google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1"
Print !"\nSupplied URL '"; URL; "'"
Print "URL decoding '"; url2string(URL); "'"
Sleep

Frink

While the default is to decode parameters as UTF-8 (which is the W3C recommendation,) the characters may have been encoded in another encoding scheme, and this can be handled correctly.

URLDecode["google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1","UTF8"]

Go

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"net/url"
)

func main() {
	for _, escaped := range []string{
		"http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F",
		"google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1",
	} {
		u, err := url.QueryUnescape(escaped)
		if err != nil {
			log.Println(err)
			continue
		}
		fmt.Println(u)
	}
}

Output:

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá

Groovy

assert URLDecoder.decode('http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F') == 'http://foo bar/'

Haskell

import qualified Data.Char as Char

urlDecode :: String -> Maybe String
urlDecode [] = Just []
urlDecode ('%':xs) =
  case xs of
    (a:b:xss) ->
      urlDecode xss
      >>= return . ((Char.chr . read $ "0x" ++ [a,b]) :)
    _ -> Nothing
urlDecode ('+':xs) = urlDecode xs >>= return . (' ' :)
urlDecode (x:xs) = urlDecode xs >>= return . (x :)

main :: IO ()
main = putStrLn . maybe "Bad decode" id $ urlDecode "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"

Output:

http://foo bar/

Another approach:

import Data.Char (chr)
import Data.List.Split (splitOn)

deCode :: String -> String
deCode url =
  let ps = splitOn "%" url
  in concat $
     head ps :
     ((\(a, b) -> (chr . read) (mappend "0x" a) : b) <$> (splitAt 2 <$> tail ps))

-- TEST ------------------------------------------------------------------------
main :: IO ()
main = putStrLn $ deCode "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"

Output:

http://foo bar/

Icon and Unicon

link hexcvt

procedure main()
ue := "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"
ud := decodeURL(ue) | stop("Improperly encoded string ",image(ue))
write("encoded = ",image(ue)) 
write("decoded = ",image(ue))
end

procedure decodeURL(s)              #: decode URL/URI encoded data
static de
initial {                           # build lookup table for everything
  de := table()
  every de[hexstring(ord(c := !string(&ascii)),2)] := c
  }

c := ""
s ? until pos(0) do                 # decode every %xx or fail
   c ||:= if ="%" then \de[move(2)] | fail
   else move(1)
return c
end

Library: Icon Programming Library

hexcvt provides hexstring

Output:

encoded = "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"
decoded = "http://foo bar/"

J

J does not have a native urldecode (until version 7 when the jhs ide addon includes a jurldecode).

Here is an implementation:

require'strings convert'
urldecode=: rplc&(~.,/;"_1&a."2(,:tolower)'%',.toupper hfd i.#a.)

Example use:

   urldecode 'http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F'
http://foo bar/

Note that an earlier implementation assumed the j6 implementation of hfd which where hexadecimal letters resulting from hfd were upper case. J8, in contrast, provides a lower case result from hfd. The addition of toupper guarantees the case insensitivity required by RFC 3986 regardless of which version of J you are using. As the parenthesized expression containing hfd is only evaluated at definition time, there's no performance penalty from the use of toupper.

Example use:

   urldecode 'google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1'
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá

Java

Java offers the URLDecoder and URLEncoder classes for this specific task.

import java.net.URLDecoder;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;

URLDecoder.decode("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F", StandardCharsets.UTF_8)

Alternately, you could use a regular expression capture

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

String decode(String string) {
    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("%([A-Za-z\\d]{2})");
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(string);
    StringBuilder decoded = new StringBuilder(string);
    char character;
    int start, end, offset = 0;
    while (matcher.find()) {
        character = (char) Integer.parseInt(matcher.group(1), 16);
        /* offset the matched index since were adjusting the string */
        start = matcher.start() - offset;
        end = matcher.end() - offset;
        decoded.replace(start, end, String.valueOf(character));
        offset += 2;
    }
    return decoded.toString();
}

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá

JavaScript

decodeURIComponent("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")

jq

Works with: jq version 1.4

If your jq already has "until", then the definition given below may be omitted.

# Emit . and stop as soon as "condition" is true.
def until(condition; next):
  def u: if condition then . else (next|u) end;
  u;

def url_decode:
  # The helper function converts the input string written in the given
  # "base" to an integer
  def to_i(base):
    explode
    | reverse
    | map(if 65 <= . and . <= 90 then . + 32  else . end)   # downcase
    | map(if . > 96  then . - 87 else . - 48 end)  # "a" ~ 97 => 10 ~ 87
    | reduce .[] as $c
        # base: [power, ans]
        ([1,0]; (.[0] * base) as $b | [$b, .[1] + (.[0] * $c)]) | .[1];

  .  as $in
  | length as $length
  | [0, ""]  # i, answer
  | until ( .[0] >= $length;
      .[0] as $i
      |  if $in[$i:$i+1] == "%"
         then [ $i + 3, .[1] + ([$in[$i+1:$i+3] | to_i(16)] | implode) ]
         else [ $i + 1, .[1] + $in[$i:$i+1] ]
         end)
  | .[1];  # answer

Example:

"http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F" |  url_decode

Output:

"http://foo bar/"

Julia

using URIParser

enc = "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"

dcd = unescape(enc)

println(enc, " => ", dcd)

Output:

http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F => http://foo bar/

Kotlin

// version 1.1.2

import java.net.URLDecoder

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    val encoded = arrayOf("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F", "google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1")
    for (e in encoded) println(URLDecoder.decode(e, "UTF-8"))
}

Output:

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá

Ksh

url_decode()
{
        decode="${*//+/ }"
        eval print -r -- "\$'${decode//'%'@(??)/'\'x\1"'\$'"}'"  2>/dev/null
}

url_decode "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"
url_decode "google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1"

Output:

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá

Lambdatalk

Currently lambdatalk has no builtin primitive for decoding URLs. Let's define it using Javascript.

1) define a new javascript primitive:
{script 
  LAMBDATALK.DICT['decodeURIComponent'] = function() {
    return decodeURIComponent( arguments[0].trim() );
  };
}

2) and use it:
{decodeURIComponent http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F}
-> http://foo bar/

langur

val finish = fn s:b2s(map(fn x:number(x, 16), rest(split("%", s))))
val decode = fn s:replace(s, re/(%[0-9A-Fa-f]{2})+/, finish)

writeln decode("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")
writeln decode("google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1")

Output:

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá

Lasso

bytes('http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F') -> decodeurl

-> http://foo bar/

Liberty BASIC

    dim lookUp$( 256)

    for i =0 to 256
        lookUp$( i) ="%" +dechex$( i)
    next i

    url$ ="http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"

    print "Supplied URL '"; url$; "'"
    print "As string    '"; url2string$( url$); "'"

    end

function url2string$( i$)
    for j =1 to len( i$)
        c$ =mid$( i$, j, 1)
        if c$ ="%" then
            nc$         =chr$( hexdec( mid$( i$, j +1, 2)))
            url2string$ =url2string$ +nc$ 
            j =j +2
        else
            url2string$ =url2string$ +c$
        end if
    next j
end function

Supplied URL 'http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F'
As string 'http://foo bar/'

Lingo

----------------------------------------
-- URL decodes a string
-- @param {string} str
-- @return {string}
----------------------------------------
on urldecode (str)
    res = ""
    ba = bytearray()
    len = str.length
    repeat with i = 1 to len
        c = str.char[i]
        if (c = "%") then
            -- fastest hex-to-dec conversion hack based on Lingo's rgb object
            ba.writeInt8(rgb(str.char[i+1..i+2]).blue)
            i = i + 2
        else if (c = "+") then
            ba.writeInt8(32)
        else
            ba.writeInt8(chartonum(c))
        end if
    end repeat
    ba.position = 1
    return ba.readRawString(ba.length)
end

put urldecode("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")
put urldecode("google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1")

Output:

-- "http://foo bar/"
-- "google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá"

LiveCode

put urlDecode("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F") & cr & \
    urlDecode("google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1")

Results

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bah√°

Lua

function decodeChar(hex)
	return string.char(tonumber(hex,16))
end

function decodeString(str)
	local output, t = string.gsub(str,"%%(%x%x)",decodeChar)
	return output
end

-- will print "http://foo bar/"
print(decodeString("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"))

M2000 Interpreter

Function Len(string) return length in words, so a value 1.5 means 3 bytes

We can add strings with half word at the end of a series of words.

A$=str$("A") has a length of 0.5

b$=chr$(a$) revert bytes to words adding zeroes after each character

Module CheckIt {
      Function decodeUrl$(a$) {
            DIM a$()
            a$()=Piece$(a$, "%")
            if len(a$())=1 then =str$(a$):exit
            k=each(a$(),2)
            \\ convert to one byte per character using str$(string)
            acc$=str$(a$(0))
            While k {
                        \\ chr$() convert to UTF16LE 
                        \\ str$()  convert to ANSI using locale (can be 1033 we can set it before as Locale 1033)
                        \\ so chr$(0x93) give 0x201C
                        \\ str$(chr$(0x93)) return one byte 93 in ANSI as string of one byte length
                        \\ numbers are for UTF-8 so we have to preserve them
                  acc$+=str$(Chr$(Eval("0x"+left$(a$(k^),2)))+Mid$(a$(k^),3))
            }
            =acc$
      }
      \\ decode from utf8
      final$=DecodeUrl$("google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1")
      Print string$(final$ as utf8dec)="google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá"
      final$=DecodeUrl$("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")
      Print string$(final$ as utf8dec)="http://foo bar/"
}
CheckIt

Maple

StringTools:-Decode("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F", encoding=percent);

Output:

                           "http://foo bar/"

Mathematica/Wolfram Language

URLDecoding[url_] := 
 StringReplace[url, "%" ~~ x_ ~~ y_ :> FromDigits[x ~~ y, 16]] //. 
  StringExpression[x___, Longest[n__Integer], y___] :> 
   StringExpression[x, FromCharacterCode[{n}, "UTF8"], y]

Example use:

URLDecoding["http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"]

Output:

http://foo bar/

---

Using the built-in URLDecode (http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/URLDecode.html) function:

Output:

In[]:= URLDecode["http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"]
Out[]= "http://foo bar/"

In[]:= URLDecode["google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1"]
Out[]= "google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá"

In[]:= URLDecode[{"Kurt+G%C3%B6del", "Paul+Erd%C5%91s"}]
Out[]= {"Kurt Gödel", "Paul Erdős"}

MATLAB / Octave

function u = urldecoding(s)
    u = '';
    k = 1;
    while k<=length(s)
        if s(k) == '%' && k+2 <= length(s)
            u = sprintf('%s%c', u, char(hex2dec(s((k+1):(k+2)))));
            k = k + 3;
        else
            u = sprintf('%s%c', u, s(k));
            k = k + 1;
        end        
    end
end

Usage:

octave:3> urldecoding('http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F')
ans = http://foo bar/

NetRexx

/* NetRexx */
options replace format comments java crossref savelog symbols nobinary

url = [ -
  'http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F', -
  'mailto%3A%22Ivan%20Aim%22%20%3Civan%2Eaim%40email%2Ecom%3E', -
  '%6D%61%69%6C%74%6F%3A%22%49%72%6D%61%20%55%73%65%72%22%20%3C%69%72%6D%61%2E%75%73%65%72%40%6D%61%69%6C%2E%63%6F%6D%3E' -
  ]

loop u_ = 0 to url.length - 1
  say url[u_]
  say DecodeURL(url[u_])
  say
  end u_

return

method DecodeURL(arg) public static
  
  Parse arg encoded
  decoded = ''
  PCT = '%'

  loop label e_ while encoded.length() > 0
    parse encoded head (PCT) +1 code +2 tail
    decoded = decoded || head
    select
      when code.strip('T').length() = 2 & code.datatype('X') then do
        code = code.x2c()
        decoded = decoded || code
        end
      when code.strip('T').length() \= 0 then do
        decoded = decoded || PCT
        tail = code || tail
        end
      otherwise do
        nop
        end
      end
    encoded = tail
    end e_

  return decoded

Output:

http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F
http://foo bar/

mailto%3A%22Ivan%20Aim%22%20%3Civan%2Eaim%40email%2Ecom%3E
mailto:"Ivan Aim" <ivan.aim@email.com>

%6D%61%69%6C%74%6F%3A%22%49%72%6D%61%20%55%73%65%72%22%20%3C%69%72%6D%61%2E%75%73%65%72%40%6D%61%69%6C%2E%63%6F%6D%3E
mailto:"Irma User" <irma.user@mail.com>

NewLISP

;; universal decoder, works for ASCII and UTF-8
;; (source http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?page=Code_Snippets)
(define (url-decode url (opt nil))
  (if opt (replace "+" url " "))
  (replace "%([0-9a-f][0-9a-f])" url (pack "b" (int $1 0 16)) 1))

(url-decode "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")

Nim

import cgi

echo decodeUrl("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")

Output:

http://foo bar/

Oberon-2

Works with: oo2c

MODULE URLDecoding;
IMPORT 
  URI := URI:String,
  Out := NPCT:Console;
BEGIN
  Out.String(URI.Unescape("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"));Out.Ln;
  Out.String(URI.Unescape("google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1"));Out.Ln;  
END URLDecoding.

Output:

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá

Objeck

class UrlDecode {
  function : Main(args : String[]) ~ Nil {
    Net.UrlUtility->Decode("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")->PrintLine();
  }
}

Objective-C

NSString *encoded = @"http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F";
NSString *normal = [encoded stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", normal);

Works with: Mac OS X version 10.9+

Works with: iOS version 7+

NSString *encoded = @"http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F";
NSString *normal = [encoded stringByRemovingPercentEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", normal);

OCaml

Using the library ocamlnet from the interactive loop:

$ ocaml
# #use "topfind";;
# #require "netstring";;

# Netencoding.Url.decode "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F" ;;
- : string = "http://foo bar/"

ooRexx

While the implementation shown for Rexx will also work with ooRexx, this version uses ooRexx syntax to invoke the built-in functions.

/* Rexx */
  X = 0
  url. = ''
  X = X + 1; url.0 = X; url.X = 'http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F'
  X = X + 1; url.0 = X; url.X = 'mailto%3A%22Ivan%20Aim%22%20%3Civan%2Eaim%40email%2Ecom%3E'
  X = X + 1; url.0 = X; url.X = '%6D%61%69%6C%74%6F%3A%22%49%72%6D%61%20%55%73%65%72%22%20%3C%69%72%6D%61%2E%75%73%65%72%40%6D%61%69%6C%2E%63%6F%6D%3E'

  Do u_ = 1 to url.0
    Say url.u_
    Say DecodeURL(url.u_)
    Say
    End u_

Exit

DecodeURL: Procedure

  Parse Arg encoded
  decoded = ''
  PCT = '%'

  Do label e_ while encoded~length() > 0
    Parse Var encoded head (PCT) +1 code +2 tail
    decoded = decoded || head
    Select
      when code~strip('T')~length() = 2 & code~datatype('X') then Do
        code = code~x2c()
        decoded = decoded || code
        End
      when code~strip('T')~length() \= 0 then Do
        decoded = decoded || PCT
        tail = code || tail
        End
      otherwise 
        Nop
      End
    encoded = tail
    End e_

  Return decoded

Output:

http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F
http://foo bar/

mailto%3A%22Ivan%20Aim%22%20%3Civan%2Eaim%40email%2Ecom%3E
mailto:"Ivan Aim" <ivan.aim@email.com>

%6D%61%69%6C%74%6F%3A%22%49%72%6D%61%20%55%73%65%72%22%20%3C%69%72%6D%61%2E%75%73%65%72%40%6D%61%69%6C%2E%63%6F%6D%3E
mailto:"Irma User" <irma.user@mail.com>

PascalABC.NET

uses System;

function URLDecode(s: string) := Uri.UnescapeDataString(s);
  
begin
  Println(URLDecode('http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F'));
  Println(URLDecode('google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1'));
  Println(URLDecode('%25%32%35'));
end.

Output:

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá
%25

Perl

sub urldecode {
    my $s = shift;
    $s =~ tr/\+/ /;
    $s =~ s/\%([A-Fa-f0-9]{2})/pack('C', hex($1))/eg;
    return $s;
}

print urldecode('http%3A%2F%2Ffoo+bar%2F')."\n";

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict ;
use URI::Escape ;

my $encoded = "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F" ;
my $unencoded = uri_unescape( $encoded ) ;
print "The unencoded string is $unencoded !\n" ;

Phix

--
-- demo\rosetta\decode_url.exw
-- ===========================
--
with javascript_semantics
function decode_url(string s)
integer skip = 0
string res = ""
    for i=1 to length(s) do
        if skip then
            skip -= 1
        else
            integer ch = s[i]
            if ch='%' then
                sequence scanres = {}
                if i+2<=length(s) then
                    scanres = scanf("#"&s[i+1..i+2],"%x")
                end if
                if length(scanres)!=1 then
                    return "decode error"
                end if
                skip = 2
                ch = scanres[1][1]
            elsif ch='+' then
                ch = ' '
            end if
            res &= ch
        end if
    end for
    return res
end function

printf(1,"%s\n",{decode_url("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")})
printf(1,"%s\n",{decode_url("google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1")})

{} = wait_key()

Output:

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá

PHP

<?php
$encoded = "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F";
$unencoded = rawurldecode($encoded);
echo "The unencoded string is $unencoded !\n";
?>

PicoLisp

: (ht:Pack (chop "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F") T)
-> "http://foo bar/"

Pike

void main()
{
    array encoded_urls = ({
        "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F",
        "google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1"
    });


    foreach(encoded_urls, string url) {
        string decoded = Protocols.HTTP.uri_decode( url );
        write( string_to_utf8(decoded) +"\n" ); // Assume sink does UTF8
    }
}

Output:

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá

PowerShell

[System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlDecode("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")

Output:

http://foo bar/

PureBasic

URL$ = URLDecoder("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")

Debug URL$  ; http://foo bar/

Python

#Python 2.X
import urllib
print urllib.unquote("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")
#Python 3.5+
from urllib.parse import unquote
print(unquote('http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F'))

R

URLdecode("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")

Racket

#lang racket
(require net/uri-codec)
(uri-decode "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")

Raku

(formerly Perl 6)

my @urls = < http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F
             google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1 >;

say .subst( :g,
    / [ '%' ( <xdigit> ** 2 ) ]+ / ,
    { Blob.new((:16(~$_) for $0)).decode }
    ) for @urls;

Output:

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá

Red

>> dehex "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"
== "http://foo bar/"
>> dehex "google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1"
== "google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá"

Retro

This is provided by the casket library (used for web app development).

create buffer 32000 allot

{{
  create bit 5 allot
  : extract  ( $c-$a ) drop @+ bit ! @+ bit 1+ ! bit ;
  : render   ( $c-$n )
    dup '+ = [ drop 32 ] ifTrue
    dup 13 = [ drop 32 ] ifTrue
    dup 10 = [ drop 32 ] ifTrue
    dup '% = [ extract hex toNumber decimal ] ifTrue ;
  : <decode> (  $-$  ) repeat @+ 0; render ^buffer'add again ;
---reveal---
  : decode   (  $-   ) buffer ^buffer'set <decode> drop ;
}}

"http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F" decode buffer puts

REXX

version 1

Translation of: ooRexx

Tested with the ooRexx and Regina interpreters.

/* Rexx */

Do
  X = 0
  url. = ''
  X = X + 1; url.0 = X; url.X = 'http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F'
  X = X + 1; url.0 = X; url.X = 'mailto%3A%22Ivan%20Aim%22%20%3Civan%2Eaim%40email%2Ecom%3E'
  X = X + 1; url.0 = X; url.X = '%6D%61%69%6C%74%6F%3A%22%49%72%6D%61%20%55%73%65%72%22%20%3C%69%72%6D%61%2E%75%73%65%72%40%6D%61%69%6C%2E%63%6F%6D%3E'

  Do u_ = 1 to url.0
    Say url.u_
    Say DecodeURL(url.u_)
    Say
    End u_

  Return
End
Exit

DecodeURL:
Procedure
Do
  Parse Arg encoded
  decoded = ''
  PCT = '%'

  Do while length(encoded) > 0
    Parse Var encoded head (PCT) +1 code +2 tail
    decoded = decoded || head
    Select
      When length(strip(code, 'T')) = 2 & datatype(code, 'X') then Do
        code = x2c(code)
        decoded = decoded || code
        End
      When length(strip(code, 'T')) \= 0 then Do
        decoded = decoded || PCT
        tail = code || tail
        End
      Otherwise Do
        Nop
        End
      End
    encoded = tail
    End

  Return decoded
End
Exit

Output:

http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F
http://foo bar/

mailto%3A%22Ivan%20Aim%22%20%3Civan%2Eaim%40email%2Ecom%3E
mailto:"Ivan Aim" <ivan.aim@email.com>

%6D%61%69%6C%74%6F%3A%22%49%72%6D%61%20%55%73%65%72%22%20%3C%69%72%6D%61%2E%75%73%65%72%40%6D%61%69%6C%2E%63%6F%6D%3E
mailto:"Irma User" <irma.user@mail.com>

version 2

This REXX version is identical to version 1, but with superfluous and dead code removed.

/*REXX program converts a   URL─encoded string  ──►  its original unencoded form.       */
url.1='http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F'
url.2='mailto%3A%22Ivan%20Aim%22%20%3Civan%2Eaim%40email%2Ecom%3E'
url.3='%6D%61%69%6C%74%6F%3A%22%49%72%6D%61%20%55%73%65%72%22%20%3C%69%72%6D%61%2E%75%73%65%72%40%6D%61%69%6C%2E%63%6F%6D%3E'
URLs =3
            do j=1  for URLs
            say url.j
            say decodeURL(url.j)
            say
            end   /*j*/
exit
/*──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────*/
decodeURL:  procedure;  parse arg encoded;     decoded= ''

              do  while encoded\==''
              parse var encoded   head  '%'  +1  code  +2  tail
              decoded= decoded || head
              L= length( strip( code, 'T') )
                 select
                 when L==2 & datatype(code, "X")  then       decoded= decoded || x2c(code)
                 when L\==0                       then do;   decoded= decoded'%'
                                                             tail= code || tail
                                                       end
                 otherwise nop
                 end    /*select*/
              encoded= tail
              end   /*while*/

            return decoded

output   is identical to the 1^st REXX version.

version 3

This REXX version is a shorter version of version 2.

/*REXX program converts & displays a URL─encoded string ──► its original unencoded form.*/
url. =
url.1='http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F'
url.2='mailto%3A%22Ivan%20Aim%22%20%3Civan%2Eaim%40email%2Ecom%3E'
url.3='%6D%61%69%6C%74%6F%3A%22%49%72%6D%61%20%55%73%65%72%22%20%3C%69%72%6D%61%2E%75%73%65%72%40%6D%61%69%6C%2E%63%6F%6D%3E'

            do j=1  until url.j=='';   say       /*process each URL; display blank line.*/
            say           url.j                  /*display the original URL.            */
            say URLdecode(url.j)                 /*   "     "  decoded   "              */
            end   /*j*/
exit                                             /*stick a fork in it,  we're all done. */
/*──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────*/
URLdecode:  procedure;  parse arg yyy            /*get encoded URL from argument list.  */
            yyy= translate(yyy, , '+')           /*a special case for an encoded blank. */
            URL=
                          do  until yyy==''
                          parse var  yyy     plain  '%'  +1  code  +2  yyy
                          URL= URL || plain
                          if datatype(code, 'X')  then URL= URL || x2c(code)
                                                  else URL= URL'%'code
                          end   /*until*/
            return URL

output   is identical to the 1^st REXX version.

Ruby

Use any one of CGI.unescape or URI.decode_www_form_component. These methods also convert "+" to " ".

require 'cgi'
puts CGI.unescape("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")
# => "http://foo bar/"

Works with: Ruby version 1.9.2

require 'uri'
puts URI.decode_www_form_component("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")
# => "http://foo bar/"

URI.unescape (alias URI.unencode) still works. URI.unescape is obsolete since Ruby 1.9.2 because of problems with its sibling URI.escape.

Rust

const INPUT1: &str = "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F";
const INPUT2: &str = "google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1";

fn append_frag(text: &mut String, frag: &mut String) {
    if !frag.is_empty() {
        let encoded = frag.chars()
            .collect::<Vec<char>>()
            .chunks(2)
            .map(|ch| {
                u8::from_str_radix(&ch.iter().collect::<String>(), 16).unwrap()
            }).collect::<Vec<u8>>();
        text.push_str(&std::str::from_utf8(&encoded).unwrap());
        frag.clear();
    }
}

fn decode(text: &str) -> String {
    let mut output = String::new();
    let mut encoded_ch = String::new();
    let mut iter = text.chars();
    while let Some(ch) = iter.next() {
        if ch == '%' {
            encoded_ch.push_str(&format!("{}{}", iter.next().unwrap(), iter.next().unwrap()));
        } else {
            append_frag(&mut output, &mut encoded_ch);
            output.push(ch);
        }
    }
    append_frag(&mut output, &mut encoded_ch);
    output
}

fn main() {
    println!("{}", decode(INPUT1));
    println!("{}", decode(INPUT2));
}

Output:

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá

Scala

Library: Scala

import java.net.{URLDecoder, URLEncoder}
import scala.compat.Platform.currentTime

object UrlCoded extends App {
  val original = """http://foo bar/"""
  val encoded: String = URLEncoder.encode(original, "UTF-8")

  assert(encoded == "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo+bar%2F", s"Original: $original not properly encoded: $encoded")

  val percentEncoding = encoded.replace("+", "%20")
  assert(percentEncoding == "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F", s"Original: $original not properly percent-encoded: $percentEncoding")

  assert(URLDecoder.decode(encoded, "UTF-8") == URLDecoder.decode(percentEncoding, "UTF-8"))

  println(s"Successfully completed without errors. [total ${currentTime - executionStart} ms]")
}

Seed7

The library encoding.s7i defines functions to handle URL respectively percent encoding. The function fromPercentEncoded decodes a percend-encoded string. The function fromUrlEncoded works like fromPercentEncoded and additionally decodes '+' with a space. Both functions return byte sequences. To decode Unicode characters it is necessary to convert them from UTF-8 with fromUtf8 afterwards.

$ include "seed7_05.s7i";
  include "encoding.s7i";

const proc: main is func
  begin
    writeln(fromPercentEncoded("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"));
    writeln(fromUrlEncoded("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo+bar%2F"));
  end func;

Output:

http://foo bar/
http://foo bar/

Sidef

Translation of: Perl

func urldecode(str) {
    str.gsub!('+', ' ');
    str.gsub!(/\%([A-Fa-f0-9]{2})/, {|a| 'C'.pack(a.hex)});
    return str;
}

say urldecode('http%3A%2F%2Ffoo+bar%2F');  # => "http://foo bar/"

Swift

import Foundation

let encoded = "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"
if let normal = encoded.stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding) {
  println(normal)
}

Tcl

This code is careful to ensure that any untoward metacharacters in the input string still do not cause any problems.

proc urlDecode {str} {
    set specialMap {"[" "%5B" "]" "%5D"}
    set seqRE {%([0-9a-fA-F]{2})}
    set replacement {[format "%c" [scan "\1" "%2x"]]}
    set modStr [regsub -all $seqRE [string map $specialMap $str] $replacement]
    return [encoding convertfrom utf-8 [subst -nobackslash -novariable $modStr]]
}

Demonstrating:

puts [urlDecode "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"]

Output:

http://foo bar/

TUSCRIPT

$$ MODE TUSCRIPT
url_encoded="http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F"
BUILD S_TABLE hex=":%><:><2<>2<%:"
hex=STRINGS (url_encoded,hex), hex=SPLIT(hex)
hex=DECODE (hex,hex)
url_decoded=SUBSTITUTE(url_encoded,":%><2<>2<%:",0,0,hex)
PRINT "encoded: ", url_encoded
PRINT "decoded: ", url_decoded

Output:

encoded: http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F
decoded: http://foo bar/

UNIX Shell

Works with: bash

Works with: ksh

urldecode() { local u="${1//+/ }"; printf '%b' "${u//%/\\x}"; }

Alternative: Replace printf '%b' "${u//%/\\x}" with echo -e "${u//%/\\x}"

Example:

urldecode http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F
http://foo bar/

urldecode google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahároot@

function urldecode
{
        typeset encoded=$1 decoded= rest= c= c1= c2=
        typeset rest2= bug='rest2=${rest}'

        if [[ -z ${BASH_VERSION:-} ]]; then
                typeset -i16 hex=0; typeset -i8 oct=0

                # bug /usr/bin/sh HP-UX 11.00
                typeset _encoded='xyz%26xyz'
                rest="${_encoded#?}"
                c="${_encoded%%${rest}}"
                if (( ${#c} != 1 )); then
                        typeset qm='????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????'
                        typeset bug='(( ${#rest} > 0 )) && typeset -L${#rest} rest2="${qm}" || rest2=${rest}'
                fi
        fi

	rest="${encoded#?}"
	eval ${bug}
	c="${encoded%%${rest2}}"
	encoded="${rest}"

	while [[ -n ${c} ]]; do
		if [[ ${c} = '%' ]]; then
			rest="${encoded#?}"
			eval ${bug}
			c1="${encoded%%${rest2}}"
			encoded="${rest}"

			rest="${encoded#?}"
			eval ${bug}
			c2="${encoded%%${rest2}}"
			encoded="${rest}"

			if [[ -z ${c1} || -z ${c2} ]]; then
				c="%${c1}${c2}"
				echo "WARNING: invalid % encoding: ${c}" >&2
			elif [[ -n ${BASH_VERSION:-} ]]; then
				c="\\x${c1}${c2}"
				c=$(\echo -e "${c}")
			else
				hex="16#${c1}${c2}"; oct=hex
				c="\\0${oct#8\#}"
				c=$(print -- "${c}")
			fi
		elif [[ ${c} = '+' ]]; then
			c=' '
		fi

		decoded="${decoded}${c}"

		rest="${encoded#?}"
		eval ${bug}
		c="${encoded%%${rest2}}"
		encoded="${rest}"
	done

	if [[ -n ${BASH_VERSION:-} ]]; then
		\echo -E "${decoded}"
	else
		print -r -- "${decoded}"
	fi
}

VBScript

Function RegExTest(str,patrn)
    Dim regEx
    Set regEx = New RegExp
    regEx.IgnoreCase = True
    regEx.Pattern = patrn
    RegExTest = regEx.Test(str)
End Function

Function URLDecode(sStr)
    Dim str,code,a0
    str=""
    code=sStr
    code=Replace(code,"+"," ")
    While len(code)>0
        If InStr(code,"%")>0 Then
            str = str & Mid(code,1,InStr(code,"%")-1)
            code = Mid(code,InStr(code,"%"))
            a0 = UCase(Mid(code,2,1))
            If a0="U" And RegExTest(code,"^%u[0-9A-F]{4}") Then
                str = str & ChrW((Int("&H" & Mid(code,3,4))))
                code = Mid(code,7)
            ElseIf a0="E" And RegExTest(code,"^(%[0-9A-F]{2}){3}") Then
                str = str & ChrW((Int("&H" & Mid(code,2,2)) And 15) * 4096 + (Int("&H" & Mid(code,5,2)) And 63) * 64 + (Int("&H" & Mid(code,8,2)) And 63))
                code = Mid(code,10)
            ElseIf a0>="C" And a0<="D" And RegExTest(code,"^(%[0-9A-F]{2}){2}") Then
                str = str & ChrW((Int("&H" & Mid(code,2,2)) And 3) * 64 + (Int("&H" & Mid(code,5,2)) And 63))
                code = Mid(code,7)
            ElseIf (a0<="B" Or a0="F") And RegExTest(code,"^%[0-9A-F]{2}") Then
                str = str & Chr(Int("&H" & Mid(code,2,2)))
                code = Mid(code,4)
            Else
                str = str & "%"
                code = Mid(code,2)
            End If
        Else
            str = str & code
            code = ""
        End If
    Wend
    URLDecode = str
End Function

url = "http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%C3%A8%2F"
WScript.Echo "Encoded URL: " & url & vbCrLf &_
	"Decoded URL: " & UrlDecode(url)

Output:

Encoded URL: http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%C3%A8%2F
Decoded URL: http://foo barè/

V (Vlang)

import net.urllib
fn main() {
	for escaped in [
		"http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F",
		"google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1",
     ] {
		u := urllib.query_unescape(escaped)?
		println(u)
	}
}

Output:

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá

Wren

Library: Wren-fmt

import "./fmt" for Conv

var urlDecode = Fn.new { |enc|
    var res = ""
    var i = 0
    while (i < enc.count) {
        var c = enc[i]
        if (c == "\%") {
            var b = Conv.atoi(enc[i+1..i+2], 16)
            res = res + String.fromByte(b)
            i = i + 3
        } else {
            res = res + c
            i = i + 1
        }
    }
    return res
}

// We need to escape % characters in Wren as % is otherwise used for string interpolation.
var encs = [
    "http\%3A\%2F\%2Ffoo\%20bar\%2F",
    "google.com/search?q=\%60Abdu\%27l-Bah\%C3\%A1"
]
for (enc in encs)System.print(urlDecode.call(enc))

Output:

http://foo bar/
google.com/search?q=`Abdu'l-Bahá

XPL0

code Text=12;
string 0;               \use zero-terminated strings

func Decode(S0);        \Decode URL string and return its address
char S0;
char S1(80);            \BEWARE: very temporary string space returned
int  C, N, I, J;
[I:= 0;  J:= 0;
repeat  C:= S0(I);  I:= I+1;                    \get char
        if C=^% then                            \convert hex to char
                [C:= S0(I);  I:= I+1;
                if C>=^a then C:= C & ~$20;     \convert to uppercase
                N:= C - (if C<=^9 then ^0 else ^A-10);
                C:= S0(I);  I:= I+1;
                if C>=^a then C:= C & ~$20;
                C:= N*16 + C - (if C<=^9 then ^0 else ^A-10);
                ];
        S1(J):= C;  J:= J+1;                    \put char in output string
until   C=0;
return S1;
];

Text(0, Decode("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2f"))

Output:

http://foo bar/

Yabasic

Translation of: Phix

sub decode_url$(s$)
    local res$, ch$
	
    while(s$ <> "")
        ch$ = left$(s$, 1)
        if ch$ = "%" then
            ch$ = chr$(dec(mid$(s$, 2, 2)))
            s$ = right$(s$, len(s$) - 3)
        else
            if ch$ = "+" ch$ = " "
            s$ = right$(s$, len(s$) - 1)
	endif
        res$ = res$ + ch$
    wend
    return res$
end sub

print decode_url$("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F")
print decode_url$("google.com/search?q=%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1")

zkl

"http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F".pump(String,  // push each char through these fcns:
   fcn(c){ if(c=="%") return(Void.Read,2); return(Void.Skip,c) },// %-->read 2 chars else pass through
   fcn(_,b,c){ (b+c).toInt(16).toChar() })  // "%" (ignored)  "3"+"1"-->0x31-->"1"

Output:

http://foo bar/

or use libCurl:

var Curl=Import.lib("zklCurl");
Curl.urlDecode("http%3A%2F%2Ffoo%20bar%2F");

Output:

http://foo bar/