Question

I have a web application where I am dynamically creating a url. The url has a parameter and I must pass a double quote. I have tried this all different ways but it is still not working. Anybody have any ideas?

To create the URL:

searchSurveyDetail.setSurveyFormURL(surveyDetail.getSurveyFormURL()+"#search="+ "\"" + searchValue + "\"");  

on the Page:

onClick="window.open('${surveyDetail.surveyInstructionsURL}')"

The result:

onClick="window.open('http://www.mytest.com/survey1.pdf#search="company"')"

Answer 1

The short answer is you need to double escape the double quotes. So you need:

searchSurveyDetail.setSurveyFormURL(surveyDetail.getSurveyFormURL()+"#search="+ "\\\"" + searchValue + "\\\"");

which produces:

onClick="window.open('http://www.mytest.com/survey1.pdf#search=\"company\"')"

which will escape the quotes properly.

Couple of things to keep in mind:

• This doesn’t take care of double quotes in the search term itself. Make sure you escape that.
• I’m not sure why you want to wrap the search term in double quotes. For a typical search url, you’ll want a query string like: search=term not search="term" because you’ll just end up stripping the quotes later. But maybe you need that for some reason.