I’ve been knocking my head against a wall trying to fix an issue in the .xspf (VLC) playlist generator I’m writing. I used “walkdir” to get the paths of the files but I can’t seem to convert them into the correct format (HTML/ANSI URL/URI?) that the .xspf file needs. I am working in Windows. For in…

See What to use for URL encoding? - #3 by quinnj — the HTTP.jl package the URIs.jl package has a function escapeuri to escape strings for URIs. It won’t convert backslash to forward slashes, but you can apply it to each component of the path (via splitpath, which splits by \ on Windows) to escape s…

The following does the job for the strings in the post: julia> s = "file:///C:\\Music\\Adiemus\\Adiemus IV_ The Eternal Knot\\04 The Wooing Of Etain.mp3" "file:///C:\\Music\\Adiemus\\Adiemus IV_ The Eternal Knot\\04 The Wooing Of Etain.mp3" julia> println(s) file:///C:\Music\Adiemus\Adiemus IV_ Th…

Thanks, I’ll give it a try. I didn’t know if there was package that existed that would do the job that I missed :slight_smile:

Thanks Dan and stevengj, I used both your methods to get it working. I used the path2uri function in which i did a replace for the Di which got mangled. It’s all working now.

We have been using the functions in JuliaWorkspaces.jl/src/URIs2/uri_helpers.jl at main · julia-vscode/JuliaWorkspaces.jl · GitHub for the LanguageServer.jl for this kind of stuff for a very long time, so in a way they are very battle tested. I wanted to move this stuff out into its own package for…

See also: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/55454 (for code copy/paste/inspiration purposes only, this is part of Base’s private API).

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Convert filepath to URI

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