Ran into a strange issue, and I believe + are being stripped from strings. Running this code in the Script Sandbox:
I have the debugger watching in VS, and its reporting the following:
Am I correct in stating that strings are getting sanitized before they reach our custom code? How can we pass in data and get that exact data in C#?
No, content is not sanitized between Velocity and execution. You can verify this by executing the following code int he script sandbox:
$core_v2_exceptions.Log("this + that")
And seeing the resulting exception in the Exception Log:
I've not noticed it before, but is it possible that the preview is resolving the + to a space as with URI encoding? That's an odd behavior if that's the case.