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title: "encode:url — Encode URL"
description: "iXML command encode:url: Encode URL."
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# encode:url — Encode URL

ENCODE:URL encodes a value according to RFC 1738 by replacing non-alphanumeric characters except '-', '_' and '.' with a percent sign ('%') followed by a 2-character hexadecimal number.

ENCODE:URL is the complement of the DECODE:URL operation.

### Attributes
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
| ---- | ---- | ------- | ----------- |
| var | var |  | Result variable name |

### Children
- (none)

### Parents
- (not restricted in the reference)

### Result
- binding: var; type: string

### Examples

```xml
<output>
	<encode:url>My name is iXML!</encode:url>
</output>

<!-- My%20name%20is%20iXML%21 -->
```