Swift - encode URL

Question

If I encode a string like this:

var escapedString = originalString.stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)

it does

Answer 1

Swift 4.2

A quick one line solution. Replace originalString with the String you want to encode.

var encodedString = originalString.addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters: CharacterSet(charactersIn: "!*'();:@&=+$,/?%#[]{} ").inverted)

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