Using % sign within a scriptlet

[Sarah Gaikwad]

Hi,
I have a jsp page which receives a request. This request contains a string.
for example:
<%
String a = request.getParameter("query");
%>
Now the value of a will be as follows:
Wildcard character % is not allowed.

However, the jsp page fails to parse because of the % sign which is displayed within the scriptlet.

Is there a work around.
Please help

[Stefan Evans]

How are you sending this parameter through the URL?
% is a special escape character in a URL as well.
Just typing it into the address bar won't work.

http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm

Take a look at the class java.net.URLEncoder.


The code you have here wouldn't cause the jsp to fail compilation.
It might create a problem with displaying the HTML but I don't think it would have an issue.
What is the actual error/problem you have?
What do you do with the variable "a" ?

[Sarah Gaikwad]

The link helped. Thanks a ton.

I have a javascript method that passes the message to a popup jsp page. All the while I was getting an error when i tried to send % through the javascript method.

Thanks so much