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I have a batch file which opens a pop-up within a website. The website opens fine, but when I want to add a parameter with a plus character, +, it doesn't work!

The code looks like this:

@echo off
start "Chrome" chrome --app=https://website.com?phone=%1

However the %1 will be replaced with the incoming number but without the + before it.

I don't why that happens so I tried to add a plus manually.

@echo off
start "Chrome" chrome --app=https://website.com?phone=+%1

But that doesn't work either!

Does anyone have an idea how to add the + sign to the url?

The desired result should be:

https://website.com?phone=+3112345678
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That's because + is the url encoding for space.

To encode a plus sign you have to use %2b.
But in batch-files the percent sign is also a special character, therefore it has to be escaped itself by another percent sign.

 https://website.com?phone=%%2B555-123

And the url should be quoted, because when more than one get parameter is present, then these parameters are separated by & signs, that collides again with the special meaning in batch files for command separation. 

start "Chrome" chrome --app="https://website.com?phone=%%2B%1&name=John"
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