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Find and replace special characters (_) in a Datatable with another special character.

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I am extracting some URLs from web that have "_" (underscores) in then and want to replace with "%5F" but this is giving me a syntax error. So basically, for example I have this URL in my datatable 

"https://teamsite.deere.com/iw-mount/productinformation/main/sales/en_GB/WORKAREA/workarea/docs/sales/salesmanual/en_GB/tractors/2021/model/5e/5050e_stagev.html" 

 

Which I want to replace with 

"https://teamsite.deere.com/iw-cc/command/iw.ccpro.launch_edit_form?full%5fredirect=true&vpath=//teamsite.deere.com/productinformation/main/sales/en%5fGB/WORKAREA/workarea/docs/sales/salesmanual/en%5fGB/tractors/2021/model/5e/5050e%5fstagev.html&done%5fpage=/iw-cc/base/util/refresh.html&locked=true&done%5ftarget=null"

 

If you see, the start and end have a little extra characters and _ replaced with %5f

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  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    % is used for variable notation in PAD. You need to escape it by adding an extra %. So, use %%5F instead of %5F.

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