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Language service should be able to find variable references inside of strings #25
Description
This affects references/occurrences finding and variable renaming. An example from Kirk:
function Write-Item($itemCount)
{
$i = 1
while ($i -le $itemCount)
{
$str = "Output ${i}"
Write-Output $str
$i = $i + 1
}
}If you attempt to rename the variable $i, the instance inside of the output string does not get renamed.
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TylerLeonhardt commentedon Jan 17, 2018
I believe this is working now but I don't quite know how to "rename" unless you mean through the search menu.
daviwil commentedon Jan 17, 2018
I think rename may be broken for us now since the LSP got new message types for performing renames. However, I think finding/renaming variables in strings did work the last time I tried it.
andyleejordan commentedon Jun 15, 2026
Resolved in the v3.8.0 symbol rewrite (#1984) — variable references inside expandable strings are now visited and indexed (
SymbolVisitor.VisitVariableExpression). Closing as completed.Drafted by GitHub Copilot (Claude Opus 4.8) at Andy Jordan (@andyleejordan)'s request.