Powershell "Here-Strings" breaks syntax highlighting

[jordigg]

When using

$var = @"
Long text inside a variable
Long text inside a variable 2
Long text inside a variable 3
Long text inside a variable 4
"@

breaks syntax highlighting. Removing the first @ fixes the highlight so I guess the error is how that @ is parsed.

Here a screen-shoot, with and without the first @

[jordigg]

Now I saw #130 with the same problem. I see that it's because the indentation. I have that code inside an if condition and that's why I use the indentation but it's still located at the same level as the opening @.

Without identation

$var = @"
Long text inside a variable
Long text inside a variable 2
Long text inside a variable 3
Long text inside a variable 4
"@
New-Item -path C:\temp -name bla.conf -type "file" -value $var -force

With identation

if($bla){
    $var = @"
    Long text inside a variable
    Long text inside a variable 2
    Long text inside a variable 3
    Long text inside a variable 4
    "@
    New-Item -path C:\temp -name bla.conf -type "file" -value $var -force
}

Seems that Github have the same problem or I'm doing something wrong. How should I write that "Here-Strings" variable? At the top of my script outside any indentation?

[Jaykul]

That's not a bug, that's a feature.

Here strings in PowerShell have 3 character delimiters: at, quote, newline ---> newline, quote, at.

If there's whitespace between the newline and the quote, it's not valid powershell.

[vors]

Yes, thank you @Jaykul ! The indentation makes it invalid here-string.