MisleadingBacktick

Severity Level: Warning

Default state: Always enabled

Description

This rule detects lines where a trailing backtick is followed by one or more whitespace characters. A trailing backtick is used for line continuation only when it's the last character on the line. If whitespace follows the backtick on the same line the continuation doesn't work as intended, which can make the code look valid but behave unexpectedly.

Example

Noncompliant

# The line in this example ends with a backtick and trailing whitespace
Get-Process `
| Where-Object CPU -gt 100

Compliant

Get-Process |
    Where-Object CPU -gt 100

Configure rule

This rule is always enabled and isn't configurable. Use one of the following methods to avoid using this rule:

• Create a custom rule configuration file to include only the rules you want or exclude the rules you don't want.
• Add the appropriate rule suppression attributes to your code to suppress the rule for specific code blocks. For more information, see the Suppressing rules section of Using PSScriptAnalyzer.