URLdecode

[Avon]

Some of the data which I'm retrieving from a webpage contains URL-encoded constants (like &amp. It looks like a job for URLdecode (StringUtils method), but it doesn't work, not for me anyway:

code:

dim su as StringUtils
label1.Text = su.DecodeUrl( sTitle, "UTF16") & " " & sdate

same result with 1) "UTF-16" 2)"Unicode".

expected result:

MARKS & SPENCER

actual result:

MARKS & SPENCER

 

[agraham]

Those are HTML character entity references not URL encodings (percent-encodings). The crudest way is to transform them is by String.Replace but maybe someone more in tune with HTML/XML than I can think of a more elegant solution.

 

[Avon]

You're right of course. Percentages, ampersands, all sqiggly stuff. I'll code it.
Thanks agraham!