#!/bin/awk -f BEGIN { # We assume an awk implementation that is just plain dumb. # We will convert an character to its ASCII value with the # table ord[], and produce two-digit hexadecimal output # without the printf("%02X") feature. EOL = "%0A" # "end of line" string (encoded) split ("1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F", hextab, " ") hextab [0] = 0 for ( i=1; i<=255; ++i ) ord [ sprintf ("%c", i) "" ] = i + 0 } { encoded = "" for ( i=1; i<=length ($0); ++i ) { c = substr ($0, i, 1) if ( c ~ /[a-zA-Z0-9.-]/ ) { encoded = encoded c # safe character } else if ( c == " " ) { encoded = encoded "+" # special handling } else { # unsafe character, encode it as a two-digit hex-number lo = ord [c] % 16 hi = int (ord [c] / 16); encoded = encoded "%" hextab [hi] hextab [lo] } } if ( EncodeEOL ) { printf ("%s", encoded EOL) } else { print encoded } } END { #if ( EncodeEOL ) print "" }