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Author Topic: Trouble with plus sign in alias  (Read 4602 times)

Jonny Johnson

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Trouble with plus sign in alias
« on: April 11, 2015, 07:36 PM »
Whenever I use the + symbol using an alias, it does not translate in my browser. For example, I have a wolfram alias that I use to graph mathematical expressions, and whenever I use the + symbol it just becomes a space, and I have to manually edit it. Everything else works, such as -/*^(). How can I get the + to work?

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Re: Trouble with plus sign in alias
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2015, 07:40 PM »
can you show me your alias (screenshot)?

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Re: Trouble with plus sign in alias
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2015, 07:48 PM »
Here you go

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Re: Trouble with plus sign in alias
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2015, 07:55 PM »
Ok, so I can help :)

Someone made a wolfram alpha alias here:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=18405.0

Now if you look at it, you'll see what's different between that one and yours:
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Re: Trouble with plus sign in alias
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2015, 07:56 PM »
The $$u1 is useful when you are opening urls, because it does the necessary replacement urlencoding so that urls are properly encoded when they have symbols like + or & in them.
I'm going to modify the tips on that form to give a hint about this -- it's very tricky i'll admit.

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Re: Trouble with plus sign in alias
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2015, 08:18 PM »
Ahhh, very nice!  It's working great now, thanks Mouser.

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Re: Trouble with plus sign in alias
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2015, 08:56 PM »
Awesome  :Thmbsup:

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Re: Trouble with plus sign in alias
« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2015, 08:57 PM »
Btw DC member Gothic, who did server admin for dc for a while, now works for wolfram doing server stuff.