property values get corrupt

Question

I pass property values like this:

property1=value1;property2=value2

but sometimes values contain ';' symbols, which causes WiX to deserialize the property string incorrectly. I've tried enquoting values with double quotes

property1="value1";property2="value2"

but that didn't help. So how can I deal with this?

Answer 1

Replying to request in comments. To double semi-colons in a property value, you can use JScript CA:

<CustomAction Id="DoubleSemiColons" Script="jscript">
    <![CDATA[

    var s = Session.Property("property2");
    var re = /;/g;
    var r = s.replace(re, ";;");

    Session.Property("property2") = r;

    ]]>
</CustomAction>