Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi there,
I can't seem to find a function in Template::Toolkit that will do a simple uri unescaping. Is there one? I see one for escaping though:
<code> uri %

thanks a lot

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Re: Template::Toolkit uri unescape
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jun 08, 2009 at 18:33 UTC

    You can create your own filters (pass it to the config part of the template object). Untested (I haven't written a filter in awhile) but if it's not right, it's close- 

    use URI::Escape ();

FILTERS => {
            uri_unescape => sub {
                URI::Escape::uri_unescape(@_);
            },
},
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Then in the template: [% my_uri_string | uri_unescape %].

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    It seems a bit strange to have an unescaped URI given to the template though. Probably there is something in the backend which is not being handled as well as it could be.

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      Thank you! That works!
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Re: Template::Toolkit uri unescape
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 08, 2009 at 18:02 UTC
    sorry I meant:  [% var | uri %]
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