| urlEncode |
(String str [, int ietf]) |
yoix.string |
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Translates each character in
str
to either
x-www-mime-urlencoded
(e.g., as used by Java) or
IETF RFC 2396
(e.g., as used by perl).
The latter encoding is used when
ietf
is present and non-zero.
The
x-www-mime-urlencoded
encoding can be described as follows: each space is converted to a plus
+)
character and all non-alphanumerics except for the underscore, dash, period and asterisk (i.e., all characters not part of the set
a-zA-Z0-9_.*-])
are converted into the percent character
%)
followed by two hexadecimal digits representing the character.
This
x-www-mime-urlencoded
encoding should be familiar to web users.
The
IETF RFC 2396
encoding is similar and is described at the
ietf.org
website.
Roughly the difference is that this latter encoding uses a hexadecimal
encoding for the space character rather than a plus
+)
character and it leaves a larger number of non-alphanumerics unencoded.
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| Example: |
The program,
import yoix.string.*;
String enc = urlEncode("Hello, World.");
stdout.nextline = enc;
stdout.nextline = urlDecode(enc);
prints
Hello%2C+World.
Hello, World.
on standard output.
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| Return: |
String
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| See Also: |
urlDecode
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