Inline tags strips newline outside of tags

[weinis]

When attempting to strip a portion of a line using inline tagging, the newline is also stripped. This happens even if trailing white space is added at the end of the line

Example:

const var1 = "123"
const var2 /*begin_strip_tag*/ = "This is a string I want removed" /*end_strip_tag*/

will result in:

const var1 = "123"const var2

I would expect:

const var1 = "123"
const var2 

[nuzzio]

Hi @weinis, thank you for submitting this and my apologies for the (super) late reply. Regarding the end of line issue:

The task is currently using grunt.util.linefeed which basically "sets the linefeed character, normalized for the current operating system. (\r\n on Windows, \n otherwise). "

It is supposed to take into account the current linefeed and build replace blocks with it. The fact that it is not happening on your side makes me wonder what encoding and linefeed chars your code is using and what machine type (OS/version) is running the task. Would be able to provide some detail on this?

[weinis]

Centos7

Running cat -e filename.js the linefeeds show up as $, which represent \n

file -i filename.js yields text/plain; charset=us-ascii

[nuzzio]

Thank you. It does not look like I ever implemented the options.eol yet. I wonder if you can:

1. Set grunt.util.linefeed = '\n'; in your grunt file and see if there is any change in behavior.

If that does not work, would you:

1. Check the localectl status output and paste it here.
2. Create a small file that has the same issue and upload it here. I will try to recreate the problem and investigate it.