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<p class="level0"><span Class="bold">#include <curl/curl.h></span>
<p class="level0"><span Class="bold">char *curl_easy_escape( CURL * curl , char * string , int length );</span>
<p class="level0"><a name="DESCRIPTION"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">DESCRIPTION</h2>
-<p class="level0">This function converts the given input <span Class="bold">string</span> to an 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).
-<p class="level0">If the <span Class="bold">length</span> argument is set to 0 (zero), <a Class="emphasis" href="./curl_easy_escape.html">curl_easy_escape</a> uses strlen() on the input <span Class="bold">url</span> to find out the size.
+<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).
+<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.
<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>
<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>
<p class="level0">A pointer to a zero terminated string or NULL if it failed. <a name="EXAMPLE"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">EXAMPLE</h2>
-<p class="level0"><pre>
-<p class="level0">CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
- if(curl) {
- char *output = curl_easy_escape(curl, "data to convert", 15);
- if(output) {
- printf("Encoded: %sn", output);
- curl_free(output);
- }
- }}
- </pre>
+<p class="level0"><pre class="level0">
+CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
+if(curl) {
+ char *output = curl_easy_escape(curl, "data to convert", 15);
+ if(output) {
+ printf("Encoded: %sn", output);
+ curl_free(output);
+ }
+}}
+</pre>
<p class="level0"><a name="SEE"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">SEE ALSO</h2>
<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">