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escape

Returns the hexadecimal encoding of an argument in the ISO-Latin-1 character set.

Core function

Implemented in
Navigator 2.0, LiveWire 1.0

Syntax

escape("string")

Parameters

string
A string in the ISO-Latin-1 character set.

Description

The escape function is a top-level JavaScript function that is not associated with any object. Use the escape and unescape functions to add property values manually to a URL.

The escape function encodes special characters in the specified string and returns the new string. It encodes spaces, punctuation, and any other character that is not an ASCII alphanumeric character, with the exception of these characters:

* @ - _ + . /

Examples

Example 1. The following example returns "%26":

escape("&")

Example 2. This statement

escape("The_rain. In Spain, Ma'am")

"The_rain.%20In%20Spain%2C%20Ma%92am":

Example 3. In the following example, the value of the variable theValue is encoded as a hexadecimal string and passed on to the request object when a user clicks the link:

<A HREF=\Q"mypage.html?val1="+escape(theValue)\Q)>Click Here</A>

See also

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