VS Code includes one or more invisible characters while working on my program.

[aacsus]

Type: Bug

VS Code Version# 1.81.1 on Windows 10 x64

Compiler gives error for the following:

include

printf("\nMemory allocation error\n");

This happens pretty often with printf(). I did some changes in my program (in this instance, I deleted couple of REM lines), and it came up with the error message: "too few arguments" for all the printf statements!

I then did a "select all", cut the whole program, and paste it into a Notepad blank page. I then cut it from the Notepad and paste it back to VS Code workbench. The problem was gone, no more errors.

Obviously, there is a bug in VS Code that introduces invisible characters.

VS Code version: Code 1.81.1 (6c3e3dba23e8fadc360aed75ce363ba185c49794, 2023-08-09T22:22:42.175Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045 Modes:

System Info

|Item|Value| |---|---| |CPUs|Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz (8 x 3592)| |GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
vulkan: disabled_off
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled
webgpu: enabled| |Load (avg)|undefined| |Memory (System)|31.91GB (19.82GB free)| |Process Argv|--crash-reporter-id b5a2fca0-60b4-424b-a726-5d6682b3c5be| |Screen Reader|no| |VM|0%|

Extensions (25)

Extension|Author (truncated)|Version ---|---|--- android-dev-ext|ade|1.3.2 gnu-debugger|chi|1.0.3 codeium|Cod|1.2.66 dart-code|Dar|3.70.0 flutter|Dar|3.70.0 gitlens|eam|14.2.1 vscode-firefox-debug|fir|2.9.8 c-cpp-runner|fra|8.1.0 vs-code-runner|Har|2.0.1 vscode-gnu-global|jay|0.3.5 Kotlin|mat|1.7.1 cmake-tools|ms-|1.15.31 cpptools|ms-|1.17.2 cpptools-extension-pack|ms-|1.3.0 notepadplusplus-keybindings|ms-|1.0.7 java|red|1.21.0 cmake|twx|0.0.17 vscode-lldb|vad|1.9.2 intellicode-api-usage-examples|Vis|0.2.7 vscodeintellicode|Vis|1.2.30 vscode-java-debug|vsc|0.53.0 vscode-java-dependency|vsc|0.23.1 vscode-java-pack|vsc|0.25.13 vscode-java-test|vsc|0.39.1 vscode-maven|vsc|0.42.0 (1 theme extensions excluded)

A/B Experiments

``` vsliv368:30146709 vsreu685:30147344 python383cf:30185419 vspor879:30202332 vspor708:30202333 vspor363:30204092 vswsl492:30256859 vslsvsres303:30308271 vserr242:30382549 pythontb:30283811 vsjup518:30340749 pythonptprofiler:30281270 vshan820:30294714 vstes263:30335439 vscod805:30301674 binariesv615:30325510 bridge0708:30335490 bridge0723:30353136 vsaa593cf:30376535 pythonvs932:30410667 py29gd2263cf:30792227 vsclangdf:30486550 c4g48928:30535728 dsvsc012cf:30540253 pynewext54:30695312 azure-dev_surveyone:30548225 vsccc:30803844 2e4cg342:30602488 f6dab269:30613381 vscrp:30673768 showlangstatbar:30737416 03d35959:30757346 pythonfmttext:30731395 pythoncmvfstrcf:30756944 fixshowwlkth:30771522 showindicator:30805244 pythongtdpath:30769146 i26e3531:30792625 gsofa:30804715 pythonnosmt12:30797651 pythonidxptcf:30805731 pythonnoceb:30805159 dsvsc013:30795093 dsvsc014:30804076 diffeditorv2:30812749 ```

[gjsjohnmurray]

/confirmPlease

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[aacsus]

I did F1, etc. A reporting window opened up. But when I click on `Preview on GitHub' button, it opens a 'Windows Explorer' for me to choose a file(?). So, I can't get past the Issue Reporter window. There's no 'Report' button. I'm stuck. Therefore, I'm writing here:

I hi-light a word (for instance, printf) and do a Ctrl+F to find them; I do some changes; I leave the FIND active; I then click on the triangle at the upper right corner of the screen to debug my code, and the following non-sense error pops-up:

PS E:\DIR> cd "e:\DIR\" ; if ($?) { gcc tempCodeRunnerFile.c -o tempCodeRunnerFile } ; if ($?) { .\tempCodeRunnerFile } tempCodeRunnerFile.c:1:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or 'attribute' at end of input 1 | printf | ^~

[aacsus]

BTW, I no longer do copy-paste and back. I close FIND, I click on an empty line, and I hit compile again. It works !