Trailing whitespace is stripped from string literal containing a line break

[jeremypw]

What Happened?

Using a string literal such as

var test = """This is a string literal ................            
.............with trailing space""";

(where .... represents whitespace) with strip trailing space on results in the trailing space after "literal" to be removed which changes the value
of the string.

Steps to Reproduce

See above

Expected Behavior

Trailing white space between triple quotes should not be stripped.

OS Version

8.x (Circe)

OS Architecture

amd64 (on most hardwares)

Session Type

Secure Session (Wayland, This is the default)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

Hardware Info

No response

[Dipanshusinghh]

@jeremypw I think this likely needs the trailing-whitespace cleanup logic to skip lines that are inside multiline string literals (""" ... """), since in this case the whitespace is part of the actual string value rather than editor formatting. I
’ll take a look through the strip-trailing-space path locally and see where that distinction can be handled safely.