vbnc does not understand multiline strings

[rolfbjarne]

Submitted by a community member on 2016-11-14 19:44 UTC

For code such as:

Dim strMultilineString As String = "Line1
Line2
Line3
Line4
"

Instead of compiling, the compiler fatal errors with:

Error VBNC30648: String constants must end with a double quote. (VBNC30648) (libDashboard)

Linux Arch 4.4.27-1-lts #1 SMP Sat Oct 22 17:17:59 CEST 2016 x86\_64 GNU/Linux
extra/mono 4.6.1.3-1 [installed]
extra/mono-addins 1.1-1 [installed]
extra/mono-basic 4.0.1-1 [installed]

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Reference: https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=46951