Posted by dbee on 02/27/06 07:24

Now I have ...

URL_ENCODED_DESCRIPTION=`php -r "echo
rawurlencode('$URL_ENCODED_DESCRIPTION');"`

echo "$URL_ENCODED_DESCRIPTION"

which preserves linefeeds and spaces but loses carriage returns... I
think I can do without apostraphes if I have to ...


dbee wrote:
> dbee wrote:
> > So I can't seem to urlencode a file with newlines ... it just gives me
> > a series of T_STRING unexpected parse errors...
> >
> > cat job_description | while read file ; do php -r "echo
> > urlencode('$file');" ; done > job_description_encoded &&
> > URL_ENCODED_DESCRIPTION=`cat job_description_encoded`
> >
> > ... this takes in a job_description file and outputs a file with alot
> > of errors in the text ... ?
>
> oops ... it seems that I misunderstood the problem. The T_STRING error
> is caused by an apostraphe in the text. I looked on php.net and it
> seems to suggest that I should use rawurlencode(), but that doesn't
> make any difference - I still get the error.
>
> Also, I lose all my newlines ... I'm playing around with the cat
> job_description function...

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