Function urlEncode( txt )
- Description:
-
Performs necessary quoting of a string for it to be included
safely in the data part of a URL.
Alphanumeric characters and the characters
underscore ("
_"),
minus sign ("-"),
period (".") and
tilde ("~") are passed through unchanged,
and any other 7-bit ASCII character is represented by a percent sign
("%") followed by its 2-digit hexadecimal code.
Characters with values of 128 or greater are simply dropped.
- Parameters:
-
txt (String)
- input (unencoded) string
- Return Value (String):
- output (encoded) string
- Example:
urlEncode("RR Lyr") = "RR%20Lyr"
- See Also:
- RFC 3986
- Signature:
String urlEncode(String)