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53 <p class=
"level0"><a name=
"NAME"></a><h2 class=
"nroffsh">NAME
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54 <p class=
"level0">curl_easy_escape - URL encodes the given string
<a name=
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55 <p class=
"level0"><span Class=
"bold">#include
<curl/curl.h
></span>
56 <p class=
"level0"><span Class=
"bold">char *curl_easy_escape( CURL * curl , const char * string
</span> <span Class=
"bold">, int length );
</span>
57 <p class=
"level0"><a name=
"DESCRIPTION"></a><h2 class=
"nroffsh">DESCRIPTION
</h2>
58 <p class=
"level0">This function converts the given input
<span Class=
"emphasis">string
</span> to a URL encoded string and returns that as a new allocated string. All input characters that are not a-z, A-Z,
0-
9, '-', '.', '_' or '~' are converted to their
"URL escaped" version (%NN where NN is a two-digit hexadecimal number).
59 <p class=
"level0">If
<span Class=
"emphasis">length
</span> is set to
0 (zero),
<a Class=
"emphasis" href=
"./curl_easy_escape.html">curl_easy_escape
</a> uses strlen() on the input
<span Class=
"emphasis">string
</span> to find out the size.
60 <p class=
"level0">You must
<a Class=
"emphasis" href=
"./curl_free.html">curl_free
</a> the returned string when you're done with it.
<a name=
"AVAILABILITY"></a><h2 class=
"nroffsh">AVAILABILITY
</h2>
61 <p class=
"level0">Added in
7.15.4 and replaces the old
<a Class=
"emphasis" href=
"./curl_escape.html">curl_escape
</a> function.
<a name=
"RETURN"></a><h2 class=
"nroffsh">RETURN VALUE
</h2>
62 <p class=
"level0">A pointer to a zero terminated string or NULL if it failed.
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"EXAMPLE"></a><h2 class=
"nroffsh">EXAMPLE
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64 CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
66 char *output = curl_easy_escape(curl,
"data to convert",
15);
68 printf(
"Encoded: %s\n", output);
69 curl_free(output);
74 <p class=
"level0"><a name=
"SEE"></a><h2 class=
"nroffsh">SEE ALSO
</h2>
75 <p class=
"level0"><a Class=
"manpage" href=
"./curl_easy_unescape.html">curl_easy_unescape
</a>,
<a Class=
"manpage" href=
"./curl_free.html">curl_free
</a>,
<span Class=
"manpage">RFC
3986</span><p class=
"roffit">
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