Trivia: What is the difference between the encoded query string parameter “a+b” and “a%20b” ?
Answer: Nothing! They are both encoded representations for “a b”.
Isn’t a “+” supposed to remain a “+”? Well, the URL and the query strings are not encoded following the same rules. In the URL, the “+” remains a “+” indeed, but in the query string it’s actually encoded and becomes a “%2B”. This can be misleading.
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Recently, a friend asked me if I could help him with a very simple task: have a dialog with an input text field where he could paste some csv lines and press a “save” button that would reformat the csv and write it to a file.
I thought that the input text field and the reformatting could be done very easily with a web page and a few JavaScript lines, but I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to save anything back to the disk without having some sort of server to serve the final result.
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