How to convert text into url-like string?

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#1

This conversion should include " " to %20 etc. replaces.

Solution

set myStr to «class ktxt» of ((myStr as string) as record)

doesn’t work

Any idea? Maybe there some kind of quick replacement instead of manual search/replace routines

#2

Hi,

the easiest solution is using a perl function


set theURL to "viewtopic.php ?id=26733"
set escapedText to do shell script "perl -e 'use URI::Escape; print uri_escape(\"" & theURL & "\")';"
--> "viewtopic.php%20%3Fid%3D26733"

PS: There’s also a fully AppleScript solution by Apple

#3

For Ruby’s sake

set theURL to "viewtopic.php ?id=26733"
set escapedText to do shell script "/usr/bin/ruby -e 'require \"uri\";puts URI.escape(\"" & theURL & "\")'"
#4

For Python’s sake :wink:


set theURL to "viewtopic.php ?id=26733"
do shell script "/usr/bin/python -c \"import urllib\nprint urllib.quote('" & theURL & "')\""
#5

See also: http://bbs.macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=13189

#6

For PHP’s sake :cool:


set theURL to "viewtopic.php ?id=26733"
set escapedText to do shell script "php -r 'echo urlencode(\"" & theURL & "\");'"