Hello!
I have an environment variable that has a # in it, for example:
TOKEN='Bearer Bi5yCZ1UawinafopianpieaigenEU^XWkE\$Jhcumfw0i#!7oH@X9zag'
In my local environment, it works fine when I wrap it in quotes, but it seems like that doesn't work in Vercel. Is there a fix for this? I already tried escaping it with \.
Thanks!
Try using double quotes, too, just to see if it works ("VALUE" instead of 'VALUE'). If that does not work, you could encode it as a Base64, which will eliminate the # character, and decode the Base64 to a normal string in your code.
.env or Vercel environment variables:
TOKEN="QmVhcmVyIEJpNXlDWjFVYXdpbmFmb3BpYW5waWVhaWdlbkVVXlhXa0VcJEpoY3VtZncwaSMhN29IQFg5emFn"Somewhere in your code:
const encodedToken = process.env.TOKEN;const decodedToken = Buffer.from(encodedToken, "base64").toString("utf-8");// Do something with the decodedToken!If that does not work, you could encode it as a URI, which should also eliminate the # character, and decode the URI to a normal string in your code.
URI Encoding Example (does not work for this specific case)
.env or Vercel environment variables:
TOKEN="Bearer%20Bi5yCZ1UawinafopianpieaigenEU%5EXWkE%24Jhcumfw0i%23!7oH%40X9zag"Somewhere in your code:
const encodedToken = process.env.TOKEN;const decodedToken = decodeURIComponent(encodedToken);// Do something with the decodedToken! Base64 encoding did the trick, thanks!
It seems weird that not a lot of people are opening issues about this, tokens usually have all sorts of weird characters, there should be some sort of manual escaping in the Vercel dashboard.
Awesome! Also, did URI encoding not work? Perhaps I should update my answer with Base64…
No, it didn't for some reason.
Thanks for letting me know, I updated the answer. 🙂