.. _global.escape:

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global.escape
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   :ref:`string` **escape** (:ref:`string` **aString**)


Parameters
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| **aString** | The string to be encoded. |
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Description
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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.