Re: url-escaping a string in a shell script.

[joost@topaz.mdcc.cx (Joost Kooij)]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 03:11:06PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 01:56:26PM +0200):
> >   perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'chomp; print uri_escape($_), "\n"'
> > 
> > A little scriptlet to do the same:
> > 
> >   #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> >   use URI::Escape;
> >   chomp, print uri_escape($_), "\n" while (<>);
> 
> almost, except that an input of "$1$29492948$6uK7lvoFHD2wWI.P.yF111"
> is output as "$1$29492948$6uK7lvoFHD2wWI.P.yF111" even though the '$'
> character needs to be escaped for HTTP... why?

Why needs the '$' character be escaped for http? 

If you insist on escaping everything, use:

  uri_escape("foo", "\0-\377")

Of course, this is all explained in the URI::Escape manual page.

Cheers,


Joost