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Unknown token: IDENT string

See original GitHub issue

I am using vscode-terraform 1.3.11 with this Terraform configuration:

variable "prefix" {
  type = string
}

That is producing this error in the PROBLEMS tab:

Unknown token: 2:10 IDENT string [2,10]

As far as I can tell from the Terraform Documentation, this should be valid.

If I run the same code through terraform validate and tflint, I get no reported errors:

$ terraform validate
Success! The configuration is valid.

$ tflint
Awesome! Your code is following the best practices :)

$ terraform --version
Terraform v0.12.0
+ provider.aws v2.12.0

$ tflint --version
TFLint version 0.8.0

I have both terraform.lintPath and terraform.path set to point to the correct versions of terraform and tflint.

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:17
Comments:8 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

68reactions

Itihocommented, Aug 27, 2019

This bug still happens in version 1.4.0 with lsp server

14reactions

kevanlucccommented, Feb 18, 2020

Having this issue as well, code runs but VScode gives me an error (Unkown token: IDENT string).

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