I have some code I have to fix with the following:

document.frmNewHireRpt.action=source;
document.frmNewHireRpt.target="_blank";
document.frmNewHireRpt.submit();

The problem is that the URL in source contains spaces and other chars that need to be URL encoded. But JavaScript doesn't seem to have a URLEncode function.

I am looking for a somewhat generic regular expression to use with Replace to URL encode a string (I don't use JavaScript that much).

Thanks!

--Dave

Check out javascript's escape() function.

Bingo!

encodeURI()

encodeURI Method

Returns a string encoded as a valid Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
function encodeURI(URIString : String) : String Arguments

URIString Required. A string representing an encoded URI.

Remarks

The encodeURI method returns an encoded URI. If you pass the result to decodeURI, the original string is returned. The encodeURI method does not encode the following characters: ":", "/", ";", and "?". Use encodeURIComponent to encode these characters.

Hmm.. escape() actually ended up working. But I'll give encodeURI() a try as well.

And, it always has for me too. However, a URL is a URI (but not all URIs are URLs), so you should use the encodeURI() Chris recommended to account for those scenarios we've not encountered yet, but which will otherwise be valid.