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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions ...st Practice/SpecialCharactersInLiterals/NonExplicitControlAndWhitespaceCharsInLiterals.ql
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Expand Up @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ class ReservedUnicodeInLiteral extends Literal {

ReservedUnicodeInLiteral() {
not this instanceof CharacterLiteral and
this.getCompilationUnit().fromSource() and
exists(int codePoint |
this.getLiteral().codePointAt(indexStart) = codePoint and
(
Expand All @@ -45,6 +46,9 @@ where
literal.getIndexStart() = charIndex and
literal.getLiteral().codePointAt(charIndex) = codePoint and
not literal.getEnclosingCallable() instanceof LikelyTestMethod and
// Kotlin extraction doesn't preserve the literal value so we can't distinguish
// between control characters and their escaped versions, so we exclude Kotlin
// to avoid false positives.
not literal.getFile().isKotlinSourceFile()
select literal,
"Literal value contains control or non-printable whitespace character(s) starting with Unicode code point "
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