[wix-users] Meaning of ^ symbol in Wix Custom Action Value attribute

Russell Haley russ.haley at gmail.com
Tue May 15 06:58:33 PDT 2018


In CMD shell ^ is a ‎multiline delimiter. That would make sense in a custom action. It will replace newlines with spaces so perhaps would guarantee proper spacing between parameters?

Hope that helps,
Russ

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^ has no meaning in MSI. I suspect they were using it as a delimiter.


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Subject: [wix-users] Meaning of ^ symbol in Wix Custom Action Value attribute

I saw a CustomAction element which had a symbol ^ in its Value attribute,
like below.

<CustomAction Id="CustAxn1" Property="[MY_PROPERTY]" HideTarget="no"
Value="[%ComputerName]^[PROPERTY1]^[ PROPERTY2 ]" />

Can anyone please explain what is the significance of the symbol ^ ?

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