02-17-2010
Hi.
I think what I was trying to say is, you don't need to execute the ls command to find out if a file is empty, or not.
the -s test option can do that for you.
See the man page for
test.
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webcommon.urlencode
WebCommon.urlEncode(3kaya) Kaya module reference WebCommon.urlEncode(3kaya)
NAME
WebCommon::urlEncode - URL encode a string
SYNOPSIS
String urlEncode( String x )
ARGUMENTS
x The string to encode
DESCRIPTION
URL encode a string. You should use this to encode reserved characters in URLs that you wish to be passed literally.
// trying to pass "http://www.example.com" as a parameter
url = "http://localhost/test.cgi?url=";
url += urlEncode("http://www.example.com");
// url = http://localhost/test.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com
Note that in the example above, encoding the whole URL would be incorrect - that would create a relative URL beginning "http://".
AUTHORS
Kaya standard library by Edwin Brady, Chris Morris and others (kaya@kayalang.org). For further information see http://kayalang.org/
LICENSE
The Kaya standard library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License (version 2.1 or any later version) as published by the Free Software Foundation.
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