Powershell syntax highlighting breaks on literal property containing variable

[aeschli]

From @jmeijrink on February 20, 2018 13:48

Issue Type

Bug

Description

Paste below script block in a window with powershell syntax highlighting:

$someVar."boe" Write-Host "Color coding is still correct"

$name = "boe" $someVar."$name" Write-Host "Color coding is broken by variable in literal property"

VS Code Info

VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.21.0-insider (6309a7734b0b0876b263a6a9cb526fc281100089, 2018-02-20T10:24:00.306Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.17074

System Info

|Item|Value| |---|---| |CPUs|Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4712HQ CPU @ 2.30GHz (8 x 2295)| |Memory (System)|15.91GB (6.00GB free)| |Process Argv|C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code Insiders\Code - Insiders.exe| |Screen Reader|no| |VM|0%|

Extensions (4)

Extension|Author (truncated)|Version ---|---|--- python|ms-|2018.1.0 PowerShell|ms-|1.5.1 team|ms-|1.122.0 vscode-docker|Pet|0.0.24

Reproduces only with extensions

Copied from original issue: Microsoft/vscode#44035

[aeschli]

I updated the Powershell to the latest from this repo. That means we are back to what we had in 1.20 and this bug no longer present.