Fix JS object replacing/encoding of strings?

Question

Hi everyone, I have an object with a value that has spaces in it, and it gets replaced with an encoded string, like:

alldata["test"] will return "Long+name" or something like alldata["test"] will return "%BLong+name%B"

when it's set by using

alldata["test"] = "Long name" (or "[Long name]") via a series of code.

Am I missing something? I don't think using $.toEvalJSON is the right way to go because I haven't transformed the object into JSON. I'd rather not do a string.replace either because I'd have to capture every possible type of input that is encoded.

Thank you!

Answer 1

If your question is how to remove the encoding, you could always use

unescape(s)

See Escape and Unescape Functions

Answer 2

The issue is related to the fact that I failed to mention that the object was being assigned the string as a result of a .serialize() command. Hence a urldecode() will work perfectly.