iOS4 - problem urlencoding a string

Question

I'm having a problem when trying to urlencode a string containing an ampersand. I'm using the following code:

NSUserDefaults *prefs = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
NSString *stadium = [[prefs stringForKey:@"stadiumname"] 
           stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];

Now, the original string going in is "Brighton & Hove", which is correct when I drop it into NSLog before it gets encoded. After it's encoded, NSLog shows that it says "Brighton22ove", which is obviously failing when I pass it as a querystring.

Any suggestions?

I think I might have found the answer here actually: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/705448/iphone-sdk-problem-with-ampersand-in-the-url-string but if anyone has any alternatives I'd be glad to hear them... — Dave, Sep 09 '11 at 15:13
Doesn't seem as if that code is going to work, still getting odd results. — Dave, Sep 09 '11 at 15:29
I've actually found the answer now at: http://cybersam.com/programming/proper-url-percent-encoding-in-ios All the code and examples are on that page. — Dave, Sep 09 '11 at 15:39

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 12 '11 at 09:12

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I've actually found the answer now at: cybersam.com/programming/proper-url-percent-encoding-in-ios All the code and examples are on that page

answered Sep 12 '11 at 09:12

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