Text field is interpreting symbol "&" like concatenate (+)

Ignition
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Hello,

I have a Textfield (input), and I’m using it to get information from a barcode that returns something like this:

ab12345&xxx754xx&acd458www55

the problem after I press enter and try to get the value (text) self.props.text, the system is interpreting the symbol & like concatenates (+).
How can I get this: ab12345&xxx754xx&acd458www55 ?

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I’m not seeing the problem in a mock-up here.

Ampersand in text

For the test I configured a script in the Text Field onKeyUp event:
self.getSibling("Label_0").props.text = self.props.text
This seems to pass through the string containing ampersands without difficulty.

Can you try to reproduce it? Maybe edit your question to include the Ignition version too.

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Thanks for the answer, but the problem is happening after I press Enter and populate the information in another place ‘Label’ for example.
What I’m doing is getting the information from the text field passing from Event onKeyDown , and executing a Query in SQL.
I’m using Ignition 8.1.

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I am unable to reproduce this within Ignition. What flavor of DB are you using? How are you calling the query?

In some flavors of DB the ‘&’ is a special character and may need to be escaped to be used as you are trying to use it.

5

Thanks for all answers.
The real problem was with the scanner that I was using :man_facepalming:t4:.
Sorry.