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at March 16, 2010 15:47 by adrianparr
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var myString:String = "/";
trace(myString);
var urlEncodeForwardSlashedRegExp:RegExp = new RegExp("/", "gi");
myString = myString.replace(urlEncodeForwardSlashedRegExp, "%2F");
trace(myString);
// OUTPUT
// /
// %2F
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In AS2 forward slashes got url-encoded to %2F when you escaped them. But in AS3 they get ignored and left as they are. In some situations I have found that this can cause problems. So you can do it manually using this regular expression.
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AS3 Convert a Forward Slash to URLEncoded Character %2F
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regex, replace, regexp
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ActionScript 3