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From: Gautier write-only <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Open URLs
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> I am looking for a way to open URLs (like "file:///home/vlc/file") as
> files - as you would do with "Open (Handle, In_File, "/home/vlc/
> file")".
>
> I could surely just remove the heading "file://", but this would still
> leave me with the problem of special characters like "file:///home/vlc/
> name%20with%20spaces".
>
> Does anybody know of a way to translate URLs to paths?

What about doing successive string replacements:
"file://" -> ""
"%20" -> " "
etc.
?
Probably you need to make a "Replace_all" function using
Ada.Strings.Fixed's routines (unless it's already there), then it
should be straightforward.
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