Removing %20 from URI Relative Path

Question

I am generating a relative path from 1 directory to another. If the OutputDirectoryName property is a directory containing spaces, the spaces are encoded using %20, rather than a space. I am creating a relative path to a windows folder, so I must have my relatiave path using spaces. Is there a clean way to specify how the URI is encoded? I know I could do a stirng replace on the relativePath.ToString(), but am wondering if there's a better implementation. Thanks.

public string GetOutputDirectoryAsRelativePath(string baseDirectory)
{
    Uri baseUri = new Uri(baseDirectory);
    Uri destinationUri = new Uri(OutputDirectoryName);
    Uri relativePath = baseUri.MakeRelativeUri(destinationUri);
    return relativePath.ToString();
}

Why do you need to replace the %20 with a space ? That is the correct way to represent a space in a URI. If you pass the strings to code that is expecting URIs then it will know that %20 means space. — andynormancx, Apr 18 '11 at 17:32
@andy: He probably wants a Windows file path, which is not URL-encoded. — SLaks, Apr 18 '11 at 17:33
@SLarks, that's correct. @andynormancx, "I am creating a relative path to a windows folder" — Stealth Rabbi, Apr 18 '11 at 17:41
Simply replacing the %20 is definitely not the way to go. There are other valid characters in Windows paths that will be encoded by the Uri class. Using Uri.UnescapeDataString looks like the best bet to me. — andynormancx, Apr 18 '11 at 17:46
@andy, you are correct. This isn't in the Answers section, so it has to go to Darth. Thank you! — Stealth Rabbi, Apr 18 '11 at 17:54

score 41 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 30 '20 at 08:09

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You can use

Uri.UnescapeDataString

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.uri.unescapedatastring.aspx

edited Jan 30 '20 at 08:09

derHugo

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answered Apr 18 '11 at 17:40

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That's the ticket. Although Andy added it as a comment first. – Stealth Rabbi Apr 18 '11 at 17:54
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No, Darth beat me fair and square. I just pointed out why UnescapeDataString is needed rather than just replacing the %20 – andynormancx Apr 18 '11 at 17:56

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 11 '15 at 13:30

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Use HttpServerUtility.UrlDecode Method (String)

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answered Apr 18 '11 at 17:40

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 03 '12 at 15:58

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string sRelativeFilePath = Uri.UnescapeDataString(new Uri(sAbsolutePath + "\\", false).MakeRelative(new Uri(filename)));

answered Apr 03 '12 at 15:58

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 18 '11 at 17:40

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Try looking at Server.UrlDecode: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6196h3wt.aspx

The space character is not the only one that is encoded.

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Server.UrlDecode() is unresolved even after referencing System.Web in my csproj. Odd... – Stealth Rabbi Apr 18 '11 at 17:56

Removing %20 from URI Relative Path

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