Intent Filter URL with # does not work?

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This is my path prefix

<data android:pathPrefix="/some.html#"/>

Android does not match this path when '#' is there in prefix. But when I remove the '#' in both URL and filter, it works. Does # have a special meaning ?

EDIT
# is a problem even when doing using path pattern

<data android:pathPrefix="/.*/"/>

Even this does not work when you pass # in the link but when the url does not contain #, it works.

Not sure if `#` has a special meaning but I think you should be able to use You can use `android:pathPattern="/some\\.html#\\."` to match the `#`. — Mike Laren, Sep 19 '16 at 07:30
@MikeLaren : Do you want me to use it with path pattern specifically? I tried it with path prefix. — Ashwin, Sep 19 '16 at 08:43
Yeah. The "pattern" seems to do regex matching while the prefix doesn't. But if you tested and it doesn't work then let's scratch my answer :) — Mike Laren, Sep 19 '16 at 21:11

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

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Try using

Use # HTML Code for Hash What's the HTML character entity for the # sign?

Or

\\# nullifies any special meaning to character

edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

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answered Sep 19 '16 at 07:39

Pawan Valecha

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pathPrefix and pathPattern only support "*" and "." -> Referlink http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10871065/match-app-and-not-appinst-with-androidpathpattern-working-on-an-intent-f – Pawan Valecha Sep 19 '16 at 10:54
I know that. But I am not using # as a wild card. # is part of the url! – Ashwin Sep 20 '16 at 04:49
@Ashwin how did you solve the issue? – Mohammed Sep 05 '22 at 13:28

Intent Filter URL with # does not work?

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