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[phred]

As part of my Custom Web Links, I have Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo set up to do lyrics searches based on artist and track title. They've been working well for a while, but now I'm running into an issue where anything after an ampersand (&) isn't being passed to the search.  For example I select a track by "Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young" only "Crosby, Stills, Nash" is passed on. Needless to say, I'm getting no results despite the fact that the track in question comes up with lyrics if I manually add & Young to the search field. In this example, if I change the artist to "Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young" but that's not the band's name per the CD.

The links I'm using are as such:
Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=$First(<Artist>)+$Split(<Title>,"(",1)
Bing: http://bing.com/search?q=$First(<Artist>)+$Split(<Title>,"(",1)+Lyrics
DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=search&q=$First(<Artist>)+$Split(<Title>,"(",1)+Lyrics

Is there any way to get MB to pass the & along with the text that follows, to get valid results?

Thanks.

[Aevaris]

I'm unfamiliar with MBs string manipulation, but some ideas from general string experience:
- Do you need to / can you specify the string as a literal?
- Is there a way to escape characters?

[redwing]

Use $Replace($First(<Artist>),&,and) in place of $First(<Artist>)

https://www.google.com/search?q=$Replace($First(<Artist>),&,and)+$Split(<Title>,"(",1)

[phred]

Thanks redwing. A couple of quick tests and it's now working as expected. I'll do some in-depth testing later today.