Question

I have a little AS3 script to convert all special characters in a string to their character codes.

Here is the script:

url = url.replace(new RegExp("%","g"),"%25")
            .replace(new RegExp("?","g"),"%3F")
            .replace(new RegExp(":","g"),"%3A")
            .replace(new RegExp("/","g"),"%2F")
            .replace(new RegExp("=","g"),"%3D")
            .replace(new RegExp("&","g"),"%26");

Now, I’m not even a beginner with RegExp, but I gave it a try.
The little script seems to do the trick quite well, but only the question mark (?) isn’t replaced.

Anyone who can tell me why?

If you can also tell me a more short way to code this, feel free to share it, I know this isn’t the best practice of RegExp…

greets

Answer 1

You have to escape the question mark: "\?"