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Posted by Tareq Alani
Tareq Alani
8,043 Points

plus sign in query key Express Application

Hello, I am building an express API. One of the platforms that will be calling this API sends a query key that has space/plus sign in it: like this "first+name=john". If I log req.query, I can see the "First Name" parameter, but how do I write code to log just first name. req.query.first+name doesn't seem to be working.

Thanks!

2 Answers

Joe Beltramo
Joe Beltramo
Courses Plus Student 22,191 Points

Generally spaces in keys are not the best idea however if they do exist, you will want to use bracket notation to access the key like so:

req.query['first name']
Tareq Alani
Tareq Alani
8,043 Points
Tareq Alani
Tareq Alani
8,043 Points

req.query["first name"]