global.escape

String escape (String aString)

Parameters

aString The string to be encoded.

Description

Creates a URL-encoded string from aString.

In the new string, characters of aString that require URL encoding are replaced with the format %xx, where xx is the hexadecimal value of the character code in the Unicode character set. This format is used to transmit information appended to a URL during, for example, execution of the GET method. Use the unescape() global function to translate the string back into its original format. Returns a string which is aString URL-encoded.