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Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2022 5:49 pm**

Dear friends,

To use an WEB API call I am required to encode a string with URLEncode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding

In Harbour this can be done using the tip_URLEncode function (HBTIP Library).

So I tried the simple line below:

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MsgDebug( tip_URLEncode("Microsoft Office") )

I was expecting the result below:

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Microsoft%20Office

But instead I got:

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Microsoft+Office

I found out both "+" and "%20" are used to replace a SPACE character.

In the link below the statement is "%20" is more modern:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/163 ... cter-or-20

Is there a modified version or alternative function to do the URLEncoding ?

Best regards,

Theo

Posted: **Wed Feb 23, 2022 10:13 pm**

Hi, if you need only replace space with "%20", can try:
MsgDebug ( StrTran ( "Microsoft Office", " ", "%20" ) )
Or...
MsgDebug ( StrTran ( Tip_UrlEncode ( "Microsoft Office" ), "+", "%20" ) )

Posted: **Mon Feb 28, 2022 10:49 am**

Hi Claudio,

Thanks for taking the time to answer my question !

In the end my problem was no problem at all because the API can also use the alternative + encoding in stead of the %20 encoding

Sorry for bothering !

Theo

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