Environment variables result in double escaped characters

Jon_Sadler · November 13, 2011, 1:44pm

One of my web.config properties contains something along the following lines:

connectionString="{sometext}"{somemoretext}"{evenmoretext}"

When I use the environment variables to modify this it escapes the ampersand so the value becomes this:

connectionString="{sometext}"{somemoretext}"{evenmoretext}"

Jon_Sadler · November 13, 2011, 1:48pm

Lines in the post above should read as follows without the spaces:

connectionString="{sometext}"{somemoretext}"{evenmoretext}“
connectionString=”{sometext}&quot;{somemoretext}&quot;{evenmoretext}"

Paul-Stovell · November 13, 2011, 1:56pm

Hi Jon,

What if you set the variable in Octopus to:

{sometext}"{somemoretext}"{evenmoretext}

This way the variable could also be used by things other than web.config (e.g passed to PowerShell later)?

Paul

From: Jon Sadler
Sent: 13/11/2011 13:46
To: Paul Stovell
Subject: Environment variables result in double escaped characters [Problems]

Jon_Sadler · November 13, 2011, 2:00pm

I have tried that and it does work, it just seems a little counter-intuitive to my mind that I need to modify my pre-existing web.config value in this way.

Anyway, I have a work around. Thanks.