deal with "&"

Magen · January 30th, 2007, 12:33 PM

I have a query string and gonna show it's value in both URL and interface.
EX: http://test.com/my.asp?customername=...stomeraddress=... ---URL
CustomerName:abcd | CustomerAddress:... ---Interface.

Now, my problem is that if a customer's name is bd&ef, I couldn't let it show in the URL, since querystring gonna regard it as 2 values, and the URL won't show up. But If I omit "&" with replace() method, the Interface won't show customername as bd&ef, but bdef, Base on this kind situation, how can I make both side satisfied?

Thank you a lot for your suggestion.

ChrisScott · January 30th, 2007, 01:42 PM

Hi Magen,

You can use the Server.URLEncode method for this...

Code:

customerName = "bd&ef"
url = "http://test.com/my.asp?customername=" & Server.URLEncode(customerName)

HTH,

Chris

itHighway · February 5th, 2007, 07:57 PM

Or you can replace the "&" with "AMPERSAND" and when displaying value again replace "AMPERSAND" to "&"

http://www.ithighway.co.uk/

Magen · February 6th, 2007, 12:09 PM

Thanks a bunch for your reply. :)