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v4.0.0
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urlEncode(dataStr)
urlEncode() converts a dataStr string to 'urlEncoded' form for the web, in accordance with RFC1738. URLs should not contain spaces, control characters, or non-ASCII characters. Characters that are illegal in URLs are encoded as '%' followed by the corresponding hexadecimal character code, e.g. space = %20.
Thus:
$MyString = urlEncode("Hello world"); sets $MyString to 'Hello%20world'.
dataStr should be a quoted literal string or a reference to a string value.
The characters ? and / are percent-encoded by urlEncode(), e.g. as %3F and %2F. Even though these are now permitted in the query portion of URLs, the Apple NSURL used by Tinderbox balks at their presence.
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