decodeURIComponent

decodeURIComponent(string) is a safe variant of the platform function: it returns the original string instead of throwing on malformed sequences — important when decoding URLs that users copy, paste, and edit by hand. Its companion encodeURIComponent is a plain passthrough of the platform function. Part of pota/use/url.

Arguments

Argument	Type	Description
string	string	The string to decode.

Returns: the decoded string, or the original string when decoding fails.

Examples

Decode safely

Decodes a percent-encoded string, returning the input untouched when it is malformed rather than throwing.

import { decodeURIComponent } from 'pota/use/url'

decodeURIComponent('a%20b') // 'a b'
decodeURIComponent('%') // '%' — platform version would throw