Question

I have an odd problem with MVC Razor @ escaping.

In some javascript in my view I have a line like this. The aim is to see if e is an email address containing a . before the @:

if (e.indexOf(".") < e.indexOf("@@")) { //Assume use firstname.lastname@... }

When testing locally, it renders correctly as:

if (e.indexOf(".") < e.indexOf("@")) { //Assume use firstname.lastname@... }

However on the server it renders as:

if (e.indexOf(".") < e.indexOf("@@")) { //Assume use firstname.lastname@... }

Which of course means it doesn’t work.

I deploy to the server via SVN, so all the files are identical apart from web.config.

What could be causing this? I’m using MVC 4.0.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can sidestep the @ confusion if you use \x40 instead.

if (e.indexOf(".") < e.indexOf("\x40")) { ... }