Formatting Escapes: Argument escapes

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The portion of a URL after a ? is known as the query string. dbCGI breaks up this query string into arguments at the + character. The arguments are then accessible using the escapes in this section. While the + character is normally used to represent the space character in a query string, if you wish to have a space character appear in a dbCGI argument you will need to use the %20 sequence in the URL instead.

The URL http://www.example.com/dbcgi/test.sql?abc%20123+def%2Bghi+jklmn contains three arguments:

If you want to use the query string without having it broken into arguments, it is still accessible as %[$QUERY_STRING%] (see the %[$...%] escape).