KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: > Can I use a perl one-liner and the module HTML::Entities to decode a > string like this from the command line?: > > select%7Bsp%7D*%7Bsp%7Dfrom%7Bsp%7Dcore_links
Those aren't HTML entities. It looks more like URI escaping > > It's the beginning of a very long SQL statement. > > I tried these variations, to no avail: [snip] You can apply URI::Escape like this: $ perl -MURI::Escape -le 'print uri_unescape(shift)' select%7Bsp%7D*%7Bsp%7Dfrom%7Bsp%7Dcore_links Which prints: select{sp}*{sp}from{sp}core_links Don't know what you need to do from there... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>