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How to escape whitespace in Azure Pipelines include / exclude paths?
Hey, I want to exclude some folders that have whitespace in the name when running the pipeline. I went through this doc https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/file-matchin...
Just running into this today. Did you ever solve this? Seems like the DevOps YAML editor is looking to match a regex and throws this error: String does not match the pattern of "^[^\/~\^\: \[\]\\]+(\/[^\/~\^\: \[\]\\]+)*$".
Okay, answering my own question after some testing. It appears the error in the YAML editor is incorrect. Though it shows the squiggly line, it does indeed validate and execute as expected by simply enclosing it in single quotes: