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46 <p class=
"level0"><a name=
"NAME"></a><h2 class=
"nroffsh">NAME
</h2>
47 <p class=
"level0">curl_easy_escape - URL encodes the given string
<a name=
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48 <p class=
"level0"><span Class=
"bold">#include
<curl/curl.h
></span>
49 <p class=
"level0"><span Class=
"bold">char *curl_easy_escape( CURL * curl , char * url , int length );
</span>
50 <p class=
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"DESCRIPTION"></a><h2 class=
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</h2>
51 <p class=
"level0">This function converts the given input string to an URL encoded string and returns that as a new allocated string. All input characters that are not a-z, A-Z or
0-
9 are converted to their
"URL escaped" version (%NN where NN is a two-digit hexadecimal number).
52 <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(
3)
</a> uses strlen() on the input
<span Class=
"bold">url
</span> to find out the size.
53 <p class=
"level0">You must
<a class=
"emphasis" href=
"./curl_free.html">curl_free(
3)
</a> the returned string when you're done with it.
<a name=
"AVAILABILITY"></a><h2 class=
"nroffsh">AVAILABILITY
</h2>
54 <p class=
"level0">Added in
7.15.4 and replaces the old
<a class=
"emphasis" href=
"./curl_escape.html">curl_escape(
3)
</a> function.
<a name=
"RETURN"></a><h2 class=
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</h2>
55 <p class=
"level0">A pointer to a zero terminated string or NULL if it failed.
<a name=
"SEE"></a><h2 class=
"nroffsh">SEE ALSO
</h2>
56 <p class=
"level0"><a class=
"manpage" href=
"./curl_easy_unescape.html">curl_easy_unescape (
3)
</a> <a class=
"manpage" href=
"./curl_free.html"> curl_free (
3)
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"manpage"> RFC
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