# Problem with "Send Email" when Body contains text with percent sign

**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/problem-with-send-email-when-body-contains-text-with-percent-sign/1486
**Category:** Discussion
**Created:** [May 20, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/problem-with-send-email-when-body-contains-text-with-percent-sign/1486 "2010-05-20T04:14:47Z")
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### Author: ![russell](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/50afbb/32.png) [@russell](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/russell)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/problem-with-send-email-when-body-contains-text-with-percent-sign/1486/1 "2010-05-20T04:14:47Z")

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&nbsp;I recently found what I consider a bug. &nbsp;I load the value of a FinalBuilder variable (I called the variable SvnLogOutput)&nbsp;with the comment from the last SVN checkin. &nbsp;Recently this comment happened to contain a percent sign in the text (because the check-in fixed a problem with a printf() and referred to "%d".) &nbsp;This caused the "Send Email" action to fail because the variable (SvnLogOutput) that contained the text of the comment had a percent sign in it and this variable was included in the "Body" of the action. &nbsp;The error is "Unable to Set Body / Missing % after :d." &nbsp;Thanks for any help in avoiding this issue.

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### Author: ![Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/vincent/32/938_2.png) [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2010, 9:53am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/problem-with-send-email-when-body-contains-text-with-percent-sign/1486/2 "2010-05-20T09:53:27Z")

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Hi Russell   
  
 This is because variable expansion in FinalBuilder is Recursive by default. You can override this behavior :   
  
 [http://help.finalbuilder.com/Index.htm?variable\_evaluation\_and\_recurs.htm](http://help.finalbuilder.com/Index.htm?variable_evaluation_and_recurs.htm)