Weird alphanumeric instead of space.

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panosdk
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Weird alphanumeric instead of space.

Post by panosdk » Sat Feb 03, 2018 10:07 pm

I am trying to do a simple google search from my application. The code does this

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  put "https://www.google.gr/search?q=" into GQueryString 
   put the text of field "tb_query" into query
   put GqueryString & query into query
launch url query
The problem is that when my query has spaces(for example "red apple", i get a "2F850" instead of a space. This alphanumeric changes every time i run livecode. I guess it has something to do with encoding? When i print the the two strings together in a msgbox, i get the space character as expected.

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Re: Weird alphanumeric instead of space.

Post by MaxV » Sat Feb 03, 2018 10:41 pm

Use urlencode.

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  put "https://www.google.gr/search?q=" into GQueryString 
   put the text of field "tb_query" into query
   put GqueryString & urlencode(query) into query
launch url query
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panosdk
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Re: Weird alphanumeric instead of space.

Post by panosdk » Sun Feb 04, 2018 9:17 pm

Thank you.

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