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I would like to encode my URL, but I want to convert spaces to plus symbols.
This is what I attempted to do...
var search = "Testing this here &";
encodeURIComponent(search.replace(/ /gi,"+"));
The output from that is Testing%2Bthis%2Bhere%2B%26 but what I would like it to be is Testing+this+here+%26 I tried replacing the space with %20 to convert it into a plus symbol, but that didn't seem to work. Can anyone tell me what it is I'm doing wrong here?
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encodeURIComponent should be used to encode a URI Component - a string that is supposed to be part of a URL. encodeURI should be used to encode a URI or an existing URL.
In JavaScript you can use the encodeURIComponent() function. Click the "URL Encode" button to see how the JavaScript function encodes the text. Note: The JavaScript function encodes space as %20.
encodeURI is used to encode a full URL. Whereas encodeURIComponent is used for encoding a URI component such as a query string. There are 11 characters which are not encoded by encodeURI , but encoded by encodeURIComponent .
The encodeURIComponent() function encodes a URI by replacing each instance of certain characters by one, two, three, or four escape sequences representing the UTF-8 encoding of the character (will only be four escape sequences for characters composed of two "surrogate" characters).
encodeURIComponent(search).replace(/%20/g, "+");
What you're doing wrong here is that first you convert spaces to pluses, but then encodeURIComponent converts pluses to "%2B".
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