[thelist] Escape of the Commas!

[.jeff]

ken,

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> From: Ken Kogler
>
> I've got multiple form elements (checkboxes, in this
> case) with the same name. Sometimes, their values
> contain commas. I'd like to escape or replace these
> commas somehow, but I can't find an equivalent.
> (double quotes are &quot;, left angle brackets are
> &lt;, etc, but what are commas? Is there even a
> character entity for a comma?)
>
> Anyone know how to escape those pesky comma values?
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in coldfusion i'd use the URLEncodedFormat() function.  i'm not sure what
the equivalent is in your language of choice.  whatever it is, the end
result will all commas being replaced by %2C.

.jeff

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