Re: encode string with spaces

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 11:22, Kevin McCarthy wrote: > All - > > Any easy way to take a string and fill the spaces in it? Say like a > URLencoding: > > This is my dog, Jack > becomes > This%20is%20my%20dog,%20Jack > > I ask this as I would like to send a string to a perl function that can > parse the string and create a hash from it based on delimiters I define. > But if there are spaces in the string in between defined fields, it is > thrown off. > > BTW, I tried both ereg_replace() and str_replace() with no luck as below: > > $my_string = "This is my dog, Jack"; > str_replace(" ", "%20", $my_string); > > $my_string remains with spaces, not %20s. > > Thanks. > > > > Kevin McCarthy rawurlencode seems to be what you want if you want %20; or see urlencode which uses + for space character. -- David Robley | WEBMASTER & Mail List Admin RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES | http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/ AusEinet | http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/ Flinders University, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA