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From: mahendrakar s <[email protected]>
To: Alan Hodgson <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Comparing two URL strings
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 12:45:59 +0530
Message-ID: <CABkiuWoNVzNy=w3Jmv2pHi-ynrHF8bXUsBjccWyjyrJtDjz+gg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Thanks Alan.

On Thu, 19 May 2022 at 22:35, Alan Hodgson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2022-05-19 at 22:23 +0530, mahendrakar s wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am facing an issue in comparing two urls (below).
> 1)  "https://domain.org/v1.0/users/[email protected]";
> 2)   "https://domain.org/v1.0/users/test%40user.org";
>
> Comparison of the two strings is failing due to mismatch of '%40'  and (@)
> character even though the both urls are the same.
>  (gdb) p url
> $1 = 0x55d35cfbd1f8 "https://domain.org/v1.0/users/[email protected]";
> (gdb) p graph_url
> $2 = 0x7ffd82777240 "https://domain.org/v1.0/users/test%40user.org";
>
> Can you please let me know how to compare these two strings.
> One way I could think of is convert both the strings to utf-8 but don't
> find an utility function to compare the UTF-8 strings.
>
>
> They aren't multi-byte; converting them to UTF-8 wouldn't change anything.
> As is, they are in fact different strings, as "URL" is something only
> browsers know about.
>
> You probably need to urldecode (or encode) them in your programming
> language before storing them.
>

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