string.URLEncode()

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Encodes a string to be URL-safe according to the application/x-www-form-urlencoded MIME format

string.URLEncode( charset=string, force=boolean )

Returns: String

Argument Description
charset
string, optional 		edit

The World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation states that UTF-8 should be used as per https://www.w3.org/TR/html40/appendix/notes.html#non-ascii-chars.

  • Using different charsets may cause incompatibilities with other systems.
force
boolean, optional 		edit

If false, then the string will not be encoded if it does not contain unsafe characters.

Examples

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urlString = "https://dev.lucee.org/t/welcome-to-lucee-dev/2064";
dump(urlString.URLEncode()); // https%3A%2F%2Fdev.lucee.org%2Ft%2Fwelcome-to-lucee-dev%2F2064

See also