How to save entry in strings resources that contains special sign

Question

In the below posted entry in the strings.xml, I would like to save a url and it includes & sign. this sign is not recognized...How to save the link as entry in strings.xml..the & sign is not recognized

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    <string name="BASE_URL">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php? 
    action=query&format=json&list=search&srsearch=Trump</string>

Possible duplicate of [How can I write character & in android strings.xml](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3053062/how-can-i-write-character-in-android-strings-xml) — sanoJ, Jul 09 '19 at 08:00

Jaime Suarez · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-09T08:19:09.503

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Just replace each & with &

<string name="BASE_URL">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php? 
    action=query&amp;format=json&amp;list=search&amp;srsearch=Trump</string>

There are some other characters that can be replaced:

> -- &gt;
< -- &lt;
" -- &quot;
' -- &apos;

edited Jul 09 '19 at 08:19

answered Jul 09 '19 at 07:59

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 09 '19 at 08:00

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You need to escape them, in this case & becomes & in the strings.xml file

answered Jul 09 '19 at 08:00

Ricardo

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 09 '19 at 08:01

Replace your & with %26

So your final URL will become

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query%26format=json%26list=search%26srsearch=Trump

OR

Enclose your url in double quotes

<string name="BASE_URL">"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&list=search&srsearch=Trump"</string>

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Jul 09 '19 at 10:51

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Since

&

is a special character, it has to be replaced with

%26

This should be your final string as you require it:

 <string name="BASE_URL">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?
    action=query%26format=json%26list=search%26srsearch=Trump</string>

edited Jul 09 '19 at 10:51

E_net4

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answered Jul 09 '19 at 08:04

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How to save entry in strings resources that contains special sign

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