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"&" in querystrings? - 6/9/2001 1:42:26 AM

anton

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I am trying to pass email addresses via a querysting. The problem
is if I have an email address that has a "&" it does work right. I
have tried all these before it is put into the querystring:

frm.txtEmail.value = replace(frm.txtEmail.value,"&","&")

frm.txtEmail.value = replace(frm.txtEmail.value,"&","&")

frm.txtEmail.value = replace(frm.txtEmail.value,"&","'&'")

frm.txtEmail.value = replace(frm.txtEmail.value,"&","'&'")

and it still doesn't work. I am at a loss. I know that the browser
sees the & and thinks it is concantinating whatever was next to
it. Help, please.

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Re: "&" in querystrings? - 6/9/2001 1:44:29 AM

rahul27

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You could maybe use the Chr() function to pass the
& as an ascii code ?

& is Chr(38)

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Re: "&" in querystrings? - 6/9/2001 1:46:06 AM

anton

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I tried that and it passed through and saved but it is now passed as
"ch(38)" literally. Now the email address is saved as
firstch(38)last@mail.com. I need it to be saved from the
querystring as first&last@mail.com. This is a start. I will see if I
can do some kind of search and replace in the stored proc. to take
the ch(38) and turn it back into &. If you have any suggestions on
how to do that using SQL 2000 that would be a great
help. Thanks.

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Re: "&" in querystrings? - 6/9/2001 1:48:01 AM

century

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using javascript, you can use:

document.escape(somestr)

and it will prepare it for use in a querystring, then you just unescape
it on the other side.

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