Swift 4 Escape ampersand in NSURLComponents

Asked Jun 20 '18 at 18:50

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I am using NSURLComponents in Swift 4 like so:

let urlComponents = NSURLComponents(string: webservice + "?PDFFile=" + PDFFile);

My String PDFFile looks like this:

Tom & Jane PDF.pdf

My question is how do I escape the ampersand in NSURLComponents?

This is what I get:

ANC%2520%26%2520SHO%2520-%2520Laundry%2520Closets%2520to%2520be%2520Checked.pdf

But this is what I need:

ANC+%26+SHO+-+Laundry+Closets+to+be+Checked.pdf

edited Jun 20 '18 at 20:34

rmaddy

asked Jun 20 '18 at 18:50

user979331

That's not how you use URLComponents. Add the query using the provided API. – rmaddy Jun 20 '18 at 19:00
@rmaddy example? – user979331 Jun 20 '18 at 19:04
Not one of the solution in the so called question I duplicated work at all – user979331 Jun 20 '18 at 19:53
Sure they do. Try this specific one: https://stackoverflow.com/a/43668198/1226963 – rmaddy Jun 20 '18 at 19:54
That 100% did not work, the string im trying to encode comes out like this `ANC%2520%26%2520SHO%2520-%2520Laundry%2520Closets%2520to%2520be%2520Checked.pdf` when I need it like this `ANC+%26+SHO+-+Laundry+Closets+to+be+Checked.pdf` – user979331 Jun 20 '18 at 20:02
Since you aren't showing how you get that, no one can help. – rmaddy Jun 20 '18 at 20:04

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