HTMLEncode/HTMLDecode

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dtaylor
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HTMLEncode/HTMLDecode

Post by dtaylor » Thu Jul 20, 2017 6:36 pm

Can someone explain to me what these do?

I've read the help about them, but it I can't figure out what they do or how I might be able to use them.

My original thought was that I could take a string and perform HTMLEncode and it would format the string for use in a URL (such as replace spaces with %20). This does not appear to be the function of this command, so any insight is greatly appreciated.

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Marcus Tettmar
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Re: HTMLEncode/HTMLDecode

Post by Marcus Tettmar » Mon Jul 24, 2017 9:53 am

They do as their name suggests and as the manual says:
Replaces the characters with special HTML significance with the corresponding HTML character entities.
This is not the same as URL Encoding. For that you can use the VBScript Escape function.
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