MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH LITE 2.X ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE - Unescape Function

90 ActionScript language elements
Example
The following example uses a
trace() statement to display in the Output panel the methods
and properties of the dynamically created text field called
error_txt:
this.createTextField("error_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 0, 0, 100,
22);
for (var i in error_txt) {
trace("error_txt."+i+" = "+error_txt[i]);
}
/* output:
error_txt.styleSheet = undefined
error_txt.mouseWheelEnabled = true
error_txt.condenseWhite = false
...
error_txt.maxscroll = 1
error_txt.scroll = 1
*/
unescape function
unescape(x:String) : String
Evaluates the parameter x as a string, decodes the string from URL-encoded format
(converting all hexadecimal sequences to ASCII characters), and returns the string.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0
Parameters
string:String - A string with hexadecimal sequences to escape.
Returns
String - A string decoded from a URL-encoded parameter.
Example
The following example shows the escape-to-unescape conversion process:
var email:String = "user@somedomain.com";
trace(email);
var escapedEmail:String = escape(email);
trace(escapedEmail);
var unescapedEmail:String = unescape(escapedEmail);
trace(unescapedEmail);
The following result is displayed in the Output panel.
user@somedomain.com
user%40somedomain%2Ecom
user@somedomain.com