What is the equivalent of Javascripts encodeURI()
/ encodURIComponent()
in Powershell?
I'm encoding a URL (need some %20
s in it) and I hate to do that manually.
You can utilize the System.Uri class for these cases.
The encodeURI()
equivalent would be to either use the EscapeUriString
static method from the class or cast your URI string as a System.URI
type and access the AbsoluteUri
property.
$uri = 'https://example.com/string with spaces'
# Method 1
[uri]::EscapeUriString($uri)
# Method 2
([uri]$uri).AbsoluteUri
# Output
https://example.com/string%20with%20spaces
The encodeURIComponent()
equivalent can be done using the class's EscapeDataString
method.
$uri = 'https://example.com/string with space&OtherThings=?'
[uri]::EscapeDataString($uri)
#Output
https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fstring%20with%20space%26OtherThings%3D%3F
Note: You do not have to define a variable ($uri
in this case). You can just replace that with a quoted string. I only used the variable for readability purposes.