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53 <p class="level0"><a name="NAME"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">NAME</h2>
54 <p class="level0">curl_easy_escape - URL encodes the given string <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">SYNOPSIS</h2>
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 , char * string , 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. <a name="EXAMPLE"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">EXAMPLE</h2>
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64 CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
66 char *output = curl_easy_escape(curl, "data to convert", 15);
68 printf("Encoded: %sn", 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"> <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt">RFC 3986</a></span> <p class="roffit">
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