Nov
5
Converting characters into a URL friendly format
posted by The Hippy in Actionscript 3, Useful code bits
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There is a handy command in Actionscript that I’d previously never encountered until this week:
escape()
If you’re receiving a text input and needing to send it out to a URL, for example in a search box, you need to convert any special characters into character codes before you request the URL. For example, a space should be sent as %20.
The escape() command allows you to do this with one command rather than having to search through character by character and reference it to a character codes array.
