Function

GLibUriunescape_segment

since: 2.16

Declaration 

char*
g_uri_unescape_segment (
  const char* escaped_string,
  const char* escaped_string_end,
  const char* illegal_characters
)

Description

Unescapes a segment of an escaped string.

If any of the characters in illegal_characters or the NUL character appears as an escaped character in escaped_string, then that is an error and NULL will be returned. This is useful if you want to avoid for instance having a slash being expanded in an escaped path element, which might confuse pathname handling.

Note: NUL byte is not accepted in the output, in contrast to g_uri_unescape_bytes().

Available since: 2.16

Parameters

escaped_string

Type: const char*

A string, may be NULL.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
escaped_string_end

Type: const char*

Pointer to end of escaped_string, may be NULL.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
illegal_characters

Type: const char*

An optional string of illegal characters not to be allowed, may be NULL.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Return value

Type: char*

An unescaped version of escaped_string, or NULL on error. The returned string should be freed when no longer needed. As a special case if NULL is given for escaped_string, this function will return NULL.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The return value can be NULL.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.