Is " \; " an escape sequence for semicolon in urls

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Is the combination \; an escape sequence for semicolon i.e. ;.

Pardon me for the shortness of the question before, actually I am using this "\;" to escape the ";" on Linux terminal and as well as windows. It is being used to separate the different parameters querystring of a URL. Using only ";" works for windows but not on Linux. However using "\;" instead of ";" works for both Linux and windows. The URL is being passed to some command for processing the resource pointed by URL.

My query was simply, Is '\;' a standard escape character for ';' on linux and windows console/shell ?

Your question seems to be about URLs, so I've replaced all the tags with "url". If your question is actually about how to represent strings in a particular language, please feel free to edit. — Oliver Charlesworth, Jun 05 '12 at 11:28

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 05 '17 at 08:07

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In urls, the escape symbol for ; is %3B

For more information see http://www.december.com/html/spec/esccodes.html

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answered Jun 05 '12 at 11:30

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Chandra Sekhar · Answer 2 · 2012-06-05T11:31:48.903

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No. But the combination \; will give an error. I think you have to try \\; instead of \;.

Because ; is not a escape character in Java. And with \ you can only put the escape characters. If you want some non-escape characters with \ then you have to use \\

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answered Jun 05 '12 at 11:28

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 05 '12 at 11:29

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Semicolon does not need escaping in urls.

You can test it yourself in your javascript console (for Chrome, or maybe Firebug in FF) by using encodeURI(';')

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Yes and no. Semicolon is not special in URLs themselves, but they *are* special in the parameter list in the query component (sometimes, they are used in place of `&`). Then they need to be escaped. – jpalecek Jun 05 '12 at 11:34

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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No. In URLs, you escape by %XX where XX is the hex code of the character you want. You can get the correctly escaped string easily in javascript by using the escape() or encodeURIComponent() functions.

See this other question for more

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 05 '12 at 11:38

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Your url read pass the arugumnets encodeURIComponent

answered Jun 05 '12 at 11:38

Mariselvam Panneerselvam

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Is " \; " an escape sequence for semicolon in urls

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