escape_string


Description:

[ Version ( since = "2.16" ) ]
public static string escape_string (string unescaped, string? reserved_chars_allowed = null, bool allow_utf8 = true)

Escapes a string for use in a URI.

Normally all characters that are not "unreserved" (i.e. ASCII alphanumerical characters plus dash, dot, underscore and tilde) are escaped. But if you specify characters in reserved_chars_allowed they are not escaped. This is useful for the "reserved" characters in the URI specification, since those are allowed unescaped in some portions of a URI.

Example: Escape strings:

public static int main (string[] args) {
string ressource = "foo/my ressource.txt";

// Output: ``Escaped ressource: "foo%2Fmy%20ressource.txt"``
string fragment = Uri.escape_string (ressource);
print ("Escaped ressource: \"%s\"\n", fragment);

// Output: ``Escaped ressource: "foo/my%20ressource.txt"``
fragment = Uri.escape_string (ressource, "/");
print ("Escaped ressource: \"%s\"\n", fragment);

return 0;
}

valac --pkg glib-2.0 GLib.Uri.escape_string.vala

Parameters:

unescaped

the unescaped input string.

reserved_chars_allowed

a string of reserved characters that are allowed to be used, or null.

allow_utf8

true if the result can include UTF-8 characters.

Returns:

an escaped version of unescaped. The returned string should be freed when no longer needed.