escaping line breaks in string

General
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Short of writing my own method to do this, is there something built into Xojo that will meet the following specification (the filepath they refer to will be a native path as a string at the point where I’m manipulating it):

[quote] o If a filepath includes a Line Feed (LF), a Carriage Return (CR),
a Carriage-Return Line Feed (CRLF), or a percent sign (%), those
characters (and only those) MUST be percent-encoded following
[RFC3986].[/quote]

EncodeURLComponent does this, but it also escapes spaces and everything else, which is not what I’m supposed to do here. I’m hoping there’s something built-in before I write some custom code to do this, but I can’t find anything that lets me specify specific characters to escape.

I’m on Xojo 2017r3

Thanks!

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s=replaceall(s,"%","%%")
s=replacelineendings(s,"%0A")
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Just keep in mind that Dave’s suggestion works if you don’t mind replacing CRLF and CR with a LF in the encoding. Otherwise, you will need two ReplaceAll calls instead of ReplaceLineEndings.

You could search for &u0A and &u0D (or Chr(10) and Chr(13)) and replace with “%0A” and “%0D” respectively.