Escape Sequences

[bigairguy]

I have a webform with data that is passed to a popup window through a querystring. The popup window just displays the data from the original page in a printer-friendly format. However, the javascript will not execute to open the popup window if there are any data fields that have special characters such as ',?,!, etc. Based on research, I think that I need to pass an escape sequence to the querystring that will replace the special characters. I am trying to do one for an ampersand with the following code:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="lib_popup.js"></script>

<%
FirstName = rsSelectGroup("FIRST_NAME")
AmpEsc = Replace(FirstName, &, &)

'(Last parameter is '&' followed by 'amp' and ';', so accordingly shows up as '&' in the forum)
%>

<center><a href="JavaScript://" onclick="win1=openNewWindow('PrintTransaction.asp?FirstName=<%=AmpEsc%>', 'saPrint', 600, 400, 'scrollbars,location,status,menubar,toolbar,resizable,status')">Printer-friendly version</a></center>


However, my code doesn't work, and I can't find a list of several other escape sequences, such as ',$,!, etc. Can someone help me out with this?

Thanks in advance,
Patrick

 

[PHV]

And this ?
AmpEsc = Replace(FirstName, "&", "%26")

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[bigairguy]

The webpage doesn't bomb using that line, but the ampersand and everything following it on the webpage doesn't show up when the link to the pop-up window is clicked on. Any ideas?

 

[bigairguy]

Disregard my last post. It works, I just overlooked something. Thanks a bunch!