Urlencode for special characters

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Joseph Plunkett

• February 04, 2020 22:40
• Edited

Hello, 
I am trying to use the urlencode() + concat() functions to create a linked search. The link will display in a dashboard and open the search in a new window. 

For the most part I have this working, however I tried to add a search parameter to the concat function which contains the tab character (\t) and that is not being encoded properly. My code looks like this: 

 

| urlencode(concat("_sourceCategory=OS/Windows ", "| parse \"Computer Name:\t*\";\" as Host_name"))

 

As I said, everything works well until I add that line with the \t character. Is this a bug or am I completely missing somthing?? 

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  Ryan Johnson

  • February 05, 2020 00:22
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  Hi Joseph,

  The good news is you're nearly there :-) The urlencode operator is interpreting the \t as a special character instead of string literals. Try the following:

  | urlencode(concat("_sourceCategory=OS/Windows ", "| parse \"Computer Name:\\t*\\\";\\\" as Host_name")) as urlencoded

  Let me know how you go :-)

  - RJ

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  Joseph Plunkett

  • February 14, 2020 19:26

  Hey Ryan, 

  Sorry for the late response, I never got notified that you responded to the thread. 

   

  I ended up figuring it out doing what you did, but thanks for the help!

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