Re: [WiX-users] Bug with Semi colon in Custom action data

[Keith M. <Kei...@se...>]

I worked around this issue by having a separate custom acction to encode the property values to remove/escape ;

The basic way it works is you pass the _names_ of the properties you want to encode, separated by semi-colons.  Since semi-colon cannot be used as an identifier it cannot be part of a property name.  My EncodeProperties custom action then gets the value of each property in turn and escapes out the semi-colons from the value by replacing them with "\x3b", which is C style escaping (I think), it also escapes "\" with "\\".  It (obviously) sets the property to the escaped value.

Then in my (original) custom action I can set its data separated with semi-colons and unescape them as needed.

I hope that's clear.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicolas Penin [mailto:n....@ha...]
> Sent: Friday, 18 November 2011 3:28 AM
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: [WiX-users] Bug with Semi colon in Custom action data
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I think this is a bug in wix :
> 
> 
> I have a variable containing a semi colon.
> 
> >From this variable and many others, I build another variable that I use as
> custom action data.
> 
> Unfortunately, the custom action data is cut because of the semi-colon. If I
> replace the semi-colon by a comma, it works perfectly.
> 
> Is there any work around against this issue ?
> 
> Regards,
> Nicolas Penin
> 
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