I do not believe you need to decode the string. The question is: did you encode the
string? If you did not, then you do not need to decode it.
Try this instead:
<%-- The query comes in here, and we format it appropriately --%>
<c:set var="query"><%= request.getParameter("query")%></c:set>
Good luck.
Java Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: Nic Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 1:41 PM
To: Tag Libraries Users List
Subject: Url Decoding
I've setup two pages where I can basically type a query in, and the
second page does the sql work. However, I'm trying to use the URLDecoder
statement to format my query, and it throws an error whenever I have a
query with the '%' sign:
URLDecoder: Illegal hex characters in escape (%) pattern - For input
string: "')"
Is there a workaround or JSTL equivalent for this? Here is the
formatting code, I'm not too strong in this area, so any help would be
appreciated.
- Nic.
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<%-- The query comes in here, and we format it appropriately --%>
<c:set var="query"><%= URLDecoder.decode(request.getParameter("query"))
%></c:set>
<%-- Then we drop it into a sql query command, once again formatting --%>
<c:set var="newquery"><c:out value='${query}' escapeXml="false"/></c:set>
<c:catch var="error">
<sql:query var="search"><c:out value="${newquery}"
escapeXml="false"/></sql:query>
</c:catch>
<c:out value="${query}"/>
<c:out value="${error}"/>
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