What are the potential pitfalls of using rawurldecode() in PHP when displaying text with spaces?

Using rawurldecode() in PHP to decode text with spaces can potentially lead to the spaces being replaced with the plus symbol (+) instead of a space. To solve this issue, you can use urldecode() instead of rawurldecode(), as urldecode() correctly decodes spaces as spaces. 

$text_with_spaces = "Hello%20World%21";
$decoded_text = urldecode($text_with_spaces);
echo $decoded_text;

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rawurldecode PHP text spaces URL-encoded

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