>>>Does anyone know of a function in VFP that converts the special characters in a URL to escape codes (E.g. #38; is an & ) and then back to regular characters?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Costas
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>>UrlEscape() and UrlUnescape() are API calls in Shlwapi.dll. You can find a VB example of these functions here.
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>>HTH,
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>The functions you gave me convert the special from %nn . I am looking for something that converts the characters from a format as #nn;
>

Can you use the strtran() function to convert all % symbols to # symbols first? Or will that cause other problems?

I think Rick really was chomping at the bit to post some code last night, and maybe he will do so. I think Foxweb has functions (www.foxweb.com) that would handle this, and I would also think that Rick has classes and functions that will do this (and much, much more) at www.west-wind.com.