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urlencode

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Replace special characters in URLs with escape characters.

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Syntax

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new_url = webread(url)

Input argument

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url

a string: URL to a web service.

Output argument

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new_url

a string: encoded url.

Description

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urlencode replaces special characters in URLs with escape characters.

Special characters in URLs need to be replaced with escape characters. For example, spaces should be replaced with '%20'.

Example

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url = 'https://httpbin.org/get?query=hello world';
res = urlencode(url)

See also

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webread.

History

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Version	Description
1.11.0	initial version

Author

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Allan CORNET