Thanks Earnie, but that is not what I am looking for. It is essentially similar to urlencode or rawurlencode. I am looking for a function that does the work like the one present at the bottom of the page here:

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

For eg:

http://example.com/q=12 &12grt key=value;<>+,.()!*

is converted to

http://example.com/q=12%20&12grt%20key=value;%3C%3E+,.()!*


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On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Earnie Boyd <earnie@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

nitin gupta wrote:

 Hi,

 I am not creating the URL, but I parse the URL from XML content and I
 want to urlencode it. Also, I am looking to preserve all the reserved
 characters in the URL and not just '?' or '&'.

http://www.google.com/search?q=url+encoding+site%3Aapi.drupal.org leads you to two api functions url [1] and drupal_urlencode [2].  Are these what you need?

[1] http://api.drupal.org/api/function/url
[2] http://api.drupal.org/api/function/drupal_urlencode

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