method

escape

ruby latest stable - Class: URI::Parser

escape(str, unsafe = @regexp[:UNSAFE])

public

Args

`str`	String to make safe
`unsafe`	Regexp to apply. Defaults to self.regexp[:UNSAFE]

Description

constructs a safe String from str, removing unsafe characters, replacing them with codes.

# File lib/uri/common.rb, line 299
    def escape(str, unsafe = @regexp[:UNSAFE])
      unless unsafe.kind_of?(Regexp)
        # perhaps unsafe is String object
        unsafe = Regexp.new("[#{Regexp.quote(unsafe)}]", false)
      end
      str.gsub(unsafe) do
        us = $&
        tmp = ''
        us.each_byte do |uc|
          tmp << sprintf('%%%02X', uc)
        end
        tmp
      end.force_encoding(Encoding::US_ASCII)
    end

escape

Method deprecated or moved

Args

Description

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