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3090-backtick_before_a_single_quoted_string

the other PowerShell string form escapes nothing inside itself, so the backtick can only speak outside it, where it stops the apostrophe from opening anything

read ascloc.defaultcloc.docstring-as-codemezura.contentmezura.regionscc.defaulttokei.default
input.ps1
1codeWrite-Host `'literal
2comments# a real comment
3code$x = 1

stringcommentthe tag around another language

What each tool answered

cloc.default ✓ agrees
the rules ask3 lines · 0 blanks · 2 code · 1 comments
it answers3 lines · 0 blanks · 2 code · 1 comments

cloc --json cases/3000-escapes_and_the_closing_quote/3090-backtick_before_a_single_quoted_string/input.ps1

cloc.default ✓ agrees

--strip-str-comments

the rules ask3 lines · 0 blanks · 2 code · 1 comments
it answers3 lines · 0 blanks · 2 code · 1 comments

cloc --json cases/3000-escapes_and_the_closing_quote/3090-backtick_before_a_single_quoted_string/input.ps1 --strip-str-comments

cloc.docstring-as-code ✓ agrees
the rules ask3 lines · 0 blanks · 2 code · 1 comments
it answers3 lines · 0 blanks · 2 code · 1 comments

cloc --json cases/3000-escapes_and_the_closing_quote/3090-backtick_before_a_single_quoted_string/input.ps1 --docstring-as-code

mezura.content ✓ agrees
the rules ask3 lines · 2 code · 1 comments · 0 extra
it answers3 lines · 2 code · 1 comments · 0 extra

mezura cases/3000-escapes_and_the_closing_quote/3090-backtick_before_a_single_quoted_string/input.ps1 --output json --hide timing --no-default-config --no-local --counting content

mezura.region ✓ agrees
the rules ask3 lines · 0 blanks · 2 code · 1 comments
it answers3 lines · 0 blanks · 2 code · 1 comments

mezura cases/3000-escapes_and_the_closing_quote/3090-backtick_before_a_single_quoted_string/input.ps1 --output json --hide timing --no-default-config --no-local --counting region

scc.default ✓ agrees
the rules ask3 lines · 0 blanks · 2 code · 1 comments
it answers3 lines · 0 blanks · 2 code · 1 comments

scc --format json cases/3000-escapes_and_the_closing_quote/3090-backtick_before_a_single_quoted_string/input.ps1

tokei.default ✗ fails

the apostrophe opens a string, and that form crosses lines, so everything below it is string

the rules ask3 lines · 0 blanks · 2 code · 1 comments
it answers3 lines · 0 blanks · 3 code · 0 comments

tokei --output json cases/3000-escapes_and_the_closing_quote/3090-backtick_before_a_single_quoted_string/input.ps1