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EE: Comment characters should be ignored in strings and XML literals

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#1,453 opened on Mar 20, 2015

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Description

Ported from TFS WorkItem: 1120198

  1. Created By Chuck Stoner (2/5/2015 9:01:14 AM)

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Research direction
Examine the expression evaluator's handling of string literals and XML literals in C# and VB to ensure comment characters (// and '') are not treated as comments within them. Focus on the lexer or parser for the debugger's expression evaluator.
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
devtools
Issue type
Bug
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3
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1-2 days
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Stale
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Clear
Prerequisites
C#compiler internals
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30