audacity/libraries/lib-string-utils/UrlEncode.cpp

/*!********************************************************************

 Audacity: A Digital Audio Editor

 @file UrlEncode.cpp
 @brief Define a function to perfom URL encoding of a string.

 Dmitry Vedenko
 **********************************************************************/

#include "UrlEncode.h"

namespace audacity
{

std::string UrlEncode (const std::string& url)
{
    std::string escaped;

    for (char c : url)
    {
        if (('0' <= c && c <= '9') ||
            ('A' <= c && c <= 'Z') ||
            ('a' <= c && c <= 'z') ||
            (c == '~' || c == '-' || c == '_' || c == '.')
            )
        {
            escaped.push_back (c);
        }
        else
        {
            static const char symbolLookup[] = "0123456789ABCDEF";

            escaped.push_back ('%');

            escaped.push_back (symbolLookup[(c & 0xF0) >> 4]);
            escaped.push_back (symbolLookup[(c & 0x0F) >> 0]);
        }
    }

    return escaped;
}

}