Number sign in path breaks highlighting

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
powershell
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Reproduce the PowerShell editor highlighting with a path containing a number sign, then inspect the syntax-highlighting rules that classify paths and comments. Confirm the fix by checking that text after the number sign on the same line remains highlighted correctly.

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Description

bug

When a number sign is part of a path, the highlighting breaks for everything on that line after the number sign.

Here's how it looks with a number sign:
bad

And If I delete the number sign, it works again.
good

moved from: https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell/issues/150

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