Description

Encodes String objects so they can be read on all computers.

Syntax

escape( charstring )

The charstring argument is a String object to be encoded.

Remarks

The escape function returns a new String object that contains the contents of charstring with all spaces, punctuation, accented characters, and any other non-ASCII characters replaced with %xx encoding, where xx is equivalent to the hexadecimal number representing the character. For example a space is returned as "%20".

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