Convert web characters hex to char or vice versa

Web url's that contain hex code convert to char in LotusScript with this function: Can also be used other way around, for making save url's


Function LSreplacehex(runString As String) As String '// build array's hex and char Dim hexArray(33) As String hexArray(0) = "%20" hexArray(1) = "%21" hexArray(2) = "%22" hexArray(3) = "%23" hexArray(4) = "%24" hexArray(5) = "%25" hexArray(6) = "%26" hexArray(7) = "%27" hexArray(8) = "%28" hexArray(9) = "%29" hexArray(10) = "%2A" hexArray(11) = "%2B" hexArray(12) = "%2C" hexArray(13) = "%2D" hexArray(14) = "%2E" hexArray(15) = "%2F" hexArray(16) = "%3A" hexArray(17) = "%3B" hexArray(18) = "%3C" hexArray(19) = "%3D" hexArray(20) = "%3E" hexArray(21) = "%3F" hexArray(22) = "%40" hexArray(23) = "%5B" hexArray(24) = "%5C" hexArray(25) = "%5D" hexArray(26) = "%5E" hexArray(27) = "%5F" hexArray(28) = "%60" hexArray(29) = "%7B" hexArray(30) = "%7C" hexArray(31) = "%7D" hexArray(32) = "%7E" Dim charArray(33) As String charArray(0) = " " charArray(1) = "!" charArray(2) = """" charArray(3) = "#" charArray(4) = "$" charArray(5) = "%" charArray(6) = "&" charArray(7) = "'" charArray(8) = "(" charArray(9) = ")" charArray(10) = "*" charArray(11) = "+" charArray(12) = "," charArray(13) = "-" charArray(14) = "." charArray(15) = "/" charArray(16) = ":" charArray(17) = ";" charArray(18) = "<" charArray(19) = "=" charArray(20) = ">" charArray(21) = "?" charArray(22) = "@" charArray(23) = "[" charArray(24) = "" charArray(25) = "]" charArray(26) = "^" charArray(27) = "_" charArray(28) = "`" charArray(29) = "{" charArray(30) = "|" charArray(31) = "}" charArray(32) = "~" teller = 0 While teller < 33 runString = LSReplaceSubstring( runString , hexArray(teller) , charArray(teller)) teller = teller + 1 Wend LSreplacehex = runString End Function

This was first published in November 2002

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