[R] "Special" characters in URI

[Gregor GORJANC]

Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
...
>> Henrik, thanks. So you suggest something like
>>
>> for (i in seq(along=map)) {
>>     URL <- gsub(pattern=names(map)[i], replacement=map[i], x=URL)
>> }
>>
> 
> Yes, something like that. To optimize, you might want to do
> 
> patterns <- names(map);
> for (i in seq(along=map)) {
>   URL <- gsub(pattern=patterns[i], replacement=map[i], x=URL)
> }
> 
Do I gain anything more than readability by this optimization?

> More important is that you treat a standard "%" different from a "%"
> used in encoding, e.g. how do you want to convert the string "100% %20"?
> You probably have to utilize more "fancy" regular expressions to detect
> a standard "%". Maybe "%[^0-9a-fA-F]" will do. There should be much more
> details in the document Brian Ripley refered you to.
> 
> In other words, you have to be careful and try to think through all
> cases you function may be called. A good test is to call it twice, once
> on your original string and the on the escaped on; you should get the
> same result. It depends how complete you want your function to be.
Thanks again.

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Lep pozdrav / With regards,
    Gregor Gorjanc

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