# inside quotes still treated as inline comment

[rmclaughlin-nelnet]

This is very similar to #601 because I am still seeing this issue in v16

I have a .env file that looks like this

KEY1="~`! @#$%^&*()_-+={[}]|\:;"'<,>.?/"
KEY2='~`! @#$%^&*()_-+={[}]|\:;"'<,>.?/'
KEY3=`~`! @#$%^&*()_-+={[}]|\:;"'<,>.?/`

When I run this code

const dotenv = require('dotenv');
console.log(JSON.stringify(dotenv.config()));

the output I get is

{"parsed":{"KEY1":"\"~`! @","KEY2":"'~`! @","KEY3":"`~`! @"}}

[jeffslofish]

Each of the three strings has the string delimiter for that line somewhere in the middle of the string. For example, the " character is nine characters from the end of the first line. If you remove the " character from that line (and the extra ' from the second line and the extra ` from the third line), then the output will be as expected.

It is odd that these extra characters are causing it to treat everything after # as a comment.

Also, it doesn't seem like there is a way to have an environment variable with all three string delimiters in it.

[motdotla]

thanks @jeffslofish. yes, @rmclaughlin-nelnet the additional ", ', and ` must be escaped.

here's a working example: https://github.com/dotenv-org/examples/blob/master/usage/dotenv-nodejs-inline-comments/.env

KEY1="~`! @#$%^&*()_-+={[}]|\:;\"'<,>.?/"
KEY2='~`! @#$%^&*()_-+={[}]|\:;"\'<,>.?/'
KEY3=`~\`! @#$%^&*()_-+={[}]|\:;"'<,>.?/`