removing the "%20" from an URL variable

scottb50@gmail.com wrote: removing the "%20" from an URL variable

In general, you shouldn't bother about the url. This is because the url is someone else's. You are therefore not in a position to do anything about it.

In ancient Egypt, there were lots of complaints about the sand in bread. Bread was the staple diet. Sand in bread meant worn teeth, and exposed tooth nerves. It probably accounted for the most pain in Egyptian life (French pun intended!). There was little to nothing the consumer could do, except pick out the sand grains(which would take forever), or bake his own.

The url you mention was baked by someone else. You therefore have to take it as-is. It's up to you to pick out the sand grains.

Bread remains nutritious with or without sand grains. Right or wrong, the url you mention still contains the following information

custom first_nam=slam

custom last_nam=mally

You could, for example, get the information from the url struct, as follows:

<cfset fname = url["custom first_nam"]>
<cfset lname = url["custom last_nam"]>

Alternatively, you could get the data by means of CGI, as follows:

<cfset myVar = arrayNew(1)>
<cfset n = 1>

<cfloop list="#CGI.QUERY_STRING#" delimiters="&" index="query_string_element">
      <cfset myVar = listGetAt(query_string_element,2,"=")>
    <cfset n=n+1>
</cfloop>

<cfdump var="#myvar#">

You could do either a replace() or rereplace() to covert that string to an empty string.

But I would probaly just urlDecode() the query string.  Since %20 is simple the url encoding of a space character.