Re: encode string with spaces

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 11:36, David Robley wrote: > 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. And that is because you need to do $my_string = str_replace(" ", "%20", $my_string); You have to assign the result of the function to something to see it :-) -- 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