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---
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Title: curl_escape
Section: 3
Source: libcurl
See-also:
- curl_free (3)
- curl_unescape (3)
---
# NAME
curl_escape - URL encodes the given string
# SYNOPSIS
~~~c
#include <curl/curl.h>
char *curl_escape(const char *string, int length);
~~~
# DESCRIPTION
Obsolete function. Use curl_easy_escape(3) instead!
This function converts the given input **string** to a URL encoded string
and return that as a new allocated string. All input characters that are not
a-z, A-Z or 0-9 are converted to their "URL escaped" version (**%NN** where
**NN** is a two-digit hexadecimal number).
If the **length** argument is set to 0, curl_escape(3) uses strlen()
on **string** to find out the size.
You must curl_free(3) the returned string when you are done with it.
# EXAMPLE
~~~c
int main(void)
{
char *output = curl_escape("data to convert", 15);
if(output) {
printf("Encoded: %s\n", output);
curl_free(output);
}
}
~~~
# AVAILABILITY
Since 7.15.4, curl_easy_escape(3) should be used. This function might be
removed in a future release.
# RETURN VALUE
A pointer to a null-terminated string or NULL if it failed.