Question

I’m trying to learn Razor but have come up against a syntax problem. When I run the following code:

@if (searchTerm != ""){
  <h2>Showing @ExamineManager.Instance.Search(searchTerm, true).Count() results for @searchTerm</h2>
  <div class="search-results">
    @foreach (var result in ExamineManager.Instance.Search(searchTerm, true)) {   
      if (result.Fields["nodeTypeAlias"] == 'File'){
        <p>File</p>
      }else{
        <p>Not file</p>  
      }
    }
  </div>
}

this errors, saying “Too many characters in character literal”. The actual mechanism of the code works, it’s just a syntax problem with the way the conditionals are nested I think, but I’ve tried various combinations of @{} blocks and prepending @ to various lines but just can’t get it to work.

Can anyone see what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks!

Answer 1

That is because you’ve got comparison

result.Fields["nodeTypeAlias"] == 'File'

In c#, you cannot write strings into single quotes like that. You should change it into

result.Fields["nodeTypeAlias"] == "File"