From 6fe9fc5813a8dfe10c5f0e92a70751db0678fb7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Olson <ry4nolson@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:23:14 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] manually encode "#" when exporting to csv

in firefox, if the csv data has a "#" in it, the file ends at the index of the first occurrence. additionally, encodeURI doesn't encode "#" since it's a valid uri character.
---
 src/vanilla-dataTables.js | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/vanilla-dataTables.js b/src/vanilla-dataTables.js
index e757876..94e749a 100644
--- a/src/vanilla-dataTables.js
+++ b/src/vanilla-dataTables.js
@@ -2085,6 +2085,8 @@
                                 text = text.replace(/\s{2,}/g, ' ');
                                 text = text.replace(/\n/g, '  ');
                                 text = text.replace(/"/g, '""');
+                                //have to manually encode "#" as encodeURI leaves it as is.
+                                text = text.replace(/#/g, "%23");
                                 if (text.indexOf(",") > -1)
                                     text = '"' + text + '"';