nhttpd simplify encodeString function

src/nhttpd/yhttpd_core/helper.cpp

@@ -216,30 +216,25 @@ std::string decodeString(std::string encodedString) {
 //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // HTMLEncode std::string
 //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-std::string encodeString(std::string decodedString) {
-	unsigned int len = sizeof(char) * decodedString.length() * 5 + 1;
-	std::string result(len, '\0');
-	char *newString = (char *) result.c_str();
-	char one_char;
-	if (len == result.length()) // got memory needed
+std::string encodeString(const std::string &decodedString)
 {
-		char *dstring = (char *) decodedString.c_str();
-		while ((one_char = *dstring++)) /* use the null character as a loop terminator */
-		{
-			if (isalnum(one_char))
-				*newString++ = one_char;
-			else
-				newString += snprintf(newString,result.length(), "&#%d;",
-						(unsigned char) one_char);
-		}
+	std::string result="";
+	char buf[10]= {0};
 
-		*newString = '\0'; /* when done copying the string,need to terminate w/ null char */
-		result.resize((unsigned int) (newString - result.c_str()), '\0');
-		return result;
+	for (unsigned int i=0; i<decodedString.length(); i++)
+	{
+		const char one_char = decodedString[i];
+		if (isalnum(one_char)) {
+			result += one_char;
 		} else {
-		return "";
+			snprintf(buf,sizeof(buf), "&#%d;",(unsigned char) one_char);
+			result +=buf;
 		}
 	}
+	result+='\0';
+	result.reserve();
+	return result;
+}
 
 //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // returns string in lower case

src/nhttpd/yhttpd_core/helper.h

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ void correctTime(struct tm *zt);
 std::string itoa(unsigned int conv);
 std::string itoh(unsigned int conv);
 std::string decodeString(std::string encodedString);
-std::string encodeString(std::string decodedString);
+std::string encodeString(const std::string &decodedString);
 std::string string_tolower(std::string str);
 
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