Support : in values for VSCODE_ENV_* variables #182781
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| foreach ($Item in $Split) { | ||
| $Inner = $Item.Split('=') | ||
| [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable($Inner[0], $Inner[1]) | ||
| [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable($Inner[0], $Inner[1].Replace('\x3a', ':')) |
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Can you clarify what this does?
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When vscode sets the variable it will ensure all values have : encoded as \x3a', so to test this out you'll want to encode the values like this:
VAR1=VAL1:VAR2=http\x3a//github.com
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We do it this way because we can't pass \0 into environment variables and splitting multi-character strings is tricky in some shells.
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Fixes #181934
Part of #179476
cc @karrtikr