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urlEncodedFormat

Generates a URL-encoded string. For example, it replaces spaces with %20, and non-alphanumeric characters with equivalent hexadecimal escape sequences. Passes arbitrary strings within a URL.

urlEncodedFormat(String [, charset])

returns string

Argument Reference

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description	Values
String	string	Yes		A string or a variable that contains one
charset	string	No		The character encoding in which the string is encoded.	/Users/garethedwards/development/github/cfdocs/docs/functions/urlencodedformat.md	utf-16

Simple urlEncodedFormat Example

It returns url encoded string.

writeOutput(URLEncodedFormat('This is a string with special character.'));

Expected Result: This%20is%20string%20with%20special%20character%2E

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