That's excellent! Works a treat! Many thanks, David
2009/12/6 80n <[email protected]> > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:21 PM, David Calder <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> I was wondering if you could help me. I'm using Tagwatch to find and tidy >> up the route_ref=* values where a pipe symbol or vbar (i.e. Unicode >> character U+007C) has been used as a delimeter. See this page for example: >> http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/Great_britain/En/ignored_route_ref.html >> >> The query for a semicolon delimited value is (for example): >> http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/osmxapi/*[route_ref=171;172;178]<http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/osmxapi/*%5Broute_ref=171;172;178%5D> >> which works fine. >> >> However, the query for a pipe delimited value is (for example): >> http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/osmxapi/*[route_ref=46|46A]<http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/osmxapi/*%5Broute_ref=46%7C46A%5D> >> which returns the data for values that match 46 OR 46A but not "46|46A". I >> know that this is the correct functionality as defined in the API spec but >> how do I write the query so that it finds "46|46A". Do I need to escape the >> character (and if so, how?) or do I need to encode it somehow (and if so, >> how?) >> > > I've just added escaping for this this and other characters. To treat | as > a literal value escape it as \| so your query would be: > > > http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/osmxapi/*[route_ref=46<http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/osmxapi/*%5Broute_ref=46> > \|46A] > > You can escape other characters [ ] = / etc in the same way. > > Spaces normally don't need to be escaped but this depends to some extent on > the client you are using. If you do need to escape space then it's URL > encoding that you need, so use %20 in place of a space. > > 80n > > > > > >> >> Many thanks, >> David >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >> >> >
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