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How to redirect an asterisk

I am trying to find what urlencoded asterisks will matter. This is not for the url, but please carry me while I explain.

Background . I am working with a really old copy of Velocity (in Clickability) and I am trying to build a search string to go to solr, where * is a reserved character.

My problem (and I'm not sure if this is a Clickability object or a specific speed), when I use the replace function with the "\ *" as the "replace * with this" parameter, it fades away and I have to use single quotes around the string (so I ending with '\ *' ). I would not think twice that this is a problem, but none of the replacements that use single quotes around them actually works.

So, my solution, until the provider support comes back to me, is urlencode everything, including special characters, and make replacements in the encoded strings. Therefore, instead of : it replaces \:, I replace % 3A with % 5C% 3A . Then, when I am done with all this, I decrypt it and pass it to Solr.

However, I cannot find what the% characters mean for * . Can someone help me or point me in the right direction?

Thanks! --Lisa

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This is a 42 (decimal) or 2A (hex) character, so %2A should do this.

EDIT: for future reference, there is a list here: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

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