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Old 09-03-2009
Question Splitting URL request string including escape characters

Hi All,
I have a text file containing two fields, the first field holds the website name and the second one holds the rest of the URL (Request part). My requirement is to split the request part based on the characters "=" and "&". The process should also consider the URL escape characters, for example if the URL contains any of the escape code listed below it should be replaced with the corresponding character. A sample is shown below:
Code:
========================================================
INPUT (Data in the text file, can contain 1 million rows)
=========================================================
www.testwebsite.com;I_CMDTypeOrig=&I_OrderReceiptTime=10%3A35%3A10&verifySO=Y&I_Acc=ABC373&loadEvaluated=false&I_OrderReceiptDate=09%2F02%2F2009&I_SecId=JED&

Code:
========================================================
OUTPUT
Note in the below output %3A has been replaced by ":" and %2F with "/"
========================================================
WEBISTENAME;KEY;VALUE
www.testwebsite.com; I_CMDTypeOrig;NULL
www.testwebsite.com; I_OrderReceiptTime;10:35:10
www.testwebsite.com; verifySO;Y
www.testwebsite.com; I_Acc ;ABC373
www.testwebsite.com; loadEvaluated;false
www.testwebsite.com; I_OrderReceiptDate;09/02/2009
www.testwebsite.com; I_SecId;JED

Code:
========================================================
URL Escape Characters
========================================================
Character    Escape Code
SPACE => %20
[ => %5B
< => %3C
] => %5D
> => %3E
` => %60
# => %23
;  => %3B
% => %25
/  => %2F
{  => %7B
?  => %3F
}  => %7D
:  => %3A
|  => %7C
@ => %40
\  => %5C
=  => %3D
^ => %5E
&  => %26
~ => %7E
$  => %24
========================================================

Any pointers to arrive at the above output will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
~John

Last edited by john2022; 09-03-2009 at 02:55 PM.. Reason: code tags added
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Old 09-03-2009
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Old 09-03-2009
One pointer for the first part:

Code:
awk 'BEGIN{FS="[;=&]";OFS=";"}{for (i=2;i<=NF;i+=($(i+1)?1:2)) print $1,$i,$(i+1)?$(i+1):"NULL"}'  input.file

For the replacement part, either you work with the awk string functions like sub(), gsub() or gensub() or first process your input file with sed that I think will be more efficient in string replacement.

Last edited by ripat; 09-03-2009 at 05:10 PM..
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Old 09-04-2009
thank you

[quote=ripat;302350395]One pointer for the first part:

Thanks for the quick repsonse Ripat. I will work based on your suggestion.
# 5  
Old 09-04-2009
To urldecode in awk, I found this:
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