Re: textfield with percent sign
Re: textfield with percent sign
- Subject: Re: textfield with percent sign
- From: Reimar Metzen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 20:38:44 +0100
Hi,
replace % with %%
Reimar
Am 01.02.2004 um 20:20 schrieb emh:
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hi all,
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new to the list (and cocoa/objc development) but i couldn't find any
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answers in either online docs or list archives.
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i have a textfield where i want the user to input a search phrase. i
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then plan on appending that phrase to the URL of a search engine, i.e.
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NSString* searchterm = [textfield stringValue];
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NSString* urlStr = [NSString
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stringWithFormat:@"http://www.blah.com/search?select=&for=%@";,
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searchTerm];
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the problem is, if the user types in something like "%@" for the
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searchterm, the program blows up. it looks like it is treating the % as
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a formatting character.
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how do i stop it from doing that?
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i tried using the stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding method on
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NSString but that only provided bizarre results -- maybe i used the
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wrong encoding (i tried ASCII and UTF8).
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any help would be appreciated!
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also, note that this doesn't have much to do with the URL stuff -- a
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simple NSLog(searchTerm) will blow up the app if searchTerm is "%@".
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evan.
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