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Return the path

== Synopsis

Declared in `<https://www.github.com/boostorg/url/blob/develop/include/boost/url/url_view_base.hpp#L1782[boost/url/url_view_base.hpp]>`

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xref:boost/urls/pct_string_view.adoc[pct_string_view]
encoded_path() const noexcept;
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== Description

This function returns the path as a string. The path may be empty. Any percent‐escapes in the string are decoded first.

== Example
[,cpp]
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assert( url_view( "file:///Program%20Files/Games/config.ini" ).encoded_path() == "/Program%20Files/Games/config.ini" );
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== Complexity
Constant.

== Exception Safety
Throws nothing.

== BNF
[,cpp]
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path          = path-abempty    ; begins with "/" or is empty
              / path-absolute   ; begins with "/" but not "//"
              / path-noscheme   ; begins with a non-colon segment
              / path-rootless   ; begins with a segment
              / path-empty      ; zero characters

path-abempty  = *( "/" segment )
path-absolute = "/" [ segment-nz *( "/" segment ) ]
path-noscheme = segment-nz-nc *( "/" segment )
path-rootless = segment-nz *( "/" segment )
path-empty    = 0<pchar>
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== Specification
* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-3.3[]

== Return Value

The path as a string&period;

== See Also

xref:boost/urls/url_view_base/is_path_absolute.adoc[`is&lowbar;path&lowbar;absolute`], xref:boost/urls/url_view_base/encoded_segments.adoc[`encoded&lowbar;segments`]&period; xref:boost/urls/url_view_base/path.adoc[`path`], xref:boost/urls/url_view_base/segments.adoc[`segments`]&period;


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