Visual C++ using "&" as a string...

[paulcybulski]

I am trying to pass a URL to the body of an e-mail using a shell...however the string I am trying to pass as the URL contains a "&" character which is being treated as an operator by the complier and it is cutting off everything after it...is there any way to get the compiler to treat the character as any other string character so it can pass the whole string?

please help

[RedSon]

I am trying to pass a URL to the body of an e-mail using a shell...however the string I am trying to pass as the URL contains a "&" character which is being treated as an operator by the complier and it is cutting off everything after it...is there any way to get the compiler to treat the character as any other string character so it can pass the whole string?

please help

Add an escape operator before you pass the URL?

[paulcybulski]

Add an escape operator before you pass the URL?

I am totally not a V-C++ programmer...wh at is an escape operator?

Paul

[RedSon]

I am totally not a V-C++ programmer...wh at is an escape operator?

Paul

something like \" or \& or \\. I escape the special character status by putting a slash before the character that I want to escape from. For example path names to files are "\\Dir\\subdir\ \file" and basically they appear to the machine as "\Dir\subdir\fi le"

[paulcybulski]

something like \" or \& or \\. I escape the special character status by putting a slash before the character that I want to escape from. For example path names to files are "\\Dir\\subdir\ \file" and basically they appear to the machine as "\Dir\subdir\fi le"

URLString = "http://www.expocadweb. com/07demo/ec/forms/ attendee/indexSales.aspx ?content=floorP lan\\&boothdata ="

URLString = URLString & TotalBoothStr & HighlightStr

mailstr = "mailto:" & Trim(Email.Text ) & "?" & "Body=" & URLString


this is what Im trying...and it is still ending the string that goes into the body at
floorPlan\\ ....however the "\\" is in the string...

[RedSon]

What datatype is your URLString?

[paulcybulski]

I figured it out...if we replace the & with %26 (the ascii translation) it works...