From 0beda1a388faac8277ffa975629a58587a3b5264 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:25:02 +0100 Subject: curl*3: added small examples and some minor edits --- docs/libcurl/curl_easy_escape.3 | 25 ++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/libcurl/curl_easy_escape.3') diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_escape.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_escape.3 index 3a98e6fe8..7c8c658d2 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_escape.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_escape.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2011, Daniel Stenberg, , et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, , et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms @@ -26,13 +26,13 @@ curl_easy_escape - URL encodes the given string .SH SYNOPSIS .B #include .sp -.BI "char *curl_easy_escape( CURL *" curl ", char *" url ", int "length " );" +.BI "char *curl_easy_escape( CURL *" curl ", char *" string ", int "length " );" .ad .SH DESCRIPTION -This function converts the given input string to an URL encoded string and -returns that as a new allocated string. All input characters that are not a-z, -A-Z, 0-9, '-', '.', '_' or '~' are converted to their "URL escaped" version -(%NN where NN is a two-digit hexadecimal number). +This function converts the given input \fBstring\fP to an URL encoded string +and returns that as a new allocated string. All input characters that are not +a-z, A-Z, 0-9, '-', '.', '_' or '~' are converted to their "URL escaped" +version (%NN where NN is a two-digit hexadecimal number). If the \fBlength\fP argument is set to 0 (zero), \fIcurl_easy_escape(3)\fP uses strlen() on the input \fBurl\fP to find out the size. @@ -42,5 +42,16 @@ You must \fIcurl_free(3)\fP the returned string when you're done with it. Added in 7.15.4 and replaces the old \fIcurl_escape(3)\fP function. .SH RETURN VALUE A pointer to a zero terminated string or NULL if it failed. +.SH EXAMPLE +.nf +CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); +if(curl) { + char *output = curl_easy_escape(curl, "data to convert", 15); + if(output) { + printf("Encoded: %s\n", output); + curl_free(output); + } +}} +.fi .SH "SEE ALSO" -.BR curl_easy_unescape "(3), " curl_free "(3), " RFC 2396 +.BR curl_easy_unescape "(3), " curl_free "(3), " RFC 3986 -- cgit v1.2.3