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escape()
Availability
Flash Player 5.
Usage
escape(expression:String) : String
Parameters
The expression to convert into a string and encode in a URL-encoded format.
expression
Returns
URL-encoded string.
Description
Function; converts the parameter to a string and encodes it in a URL-encoded format, where all
nonalphanumeric characters are replaced with % hexadecimal sequences. When used in a URL-
encoded string, the percentage symbol (%) is used to introduce escape characters, and is not
equivalent to the modulo operator (%).
Example
The following code produces the result
var email:String = "someuser@somedomain.com";
trace(escape(email));
In this example, the at symbol (
with . This is useful if you're trying to pass information to a remote server and the data has
%2E
special characters in it (for example,
var redirectUrl = "http://www.somedomain.com?loggedin=true&username=Gus";
getURL("http://www.myothersite.com?returnurl="+ escape(redirectUrl));
See also
unescape()
ActionScript Core Language Elements
someuser%40somedomain%2Ecom
) was replaced with
@ %40
or ), as shown in the following code:
& ?
:
and the dot symbol (
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