plantuml.1.2018.11.jar doesn't work with comments in config file

Question

• Reproducing steps
  1. create a config file, named plantuml.config
     • content (note the comment)

       ' comment
       skinparam dpi 300
       

  2. create a plantuml file, named some.puml
     • content

       @startuml
       Bob -> Alice : Hello World!
       @enduml
       

  3. run plantuml
     • command line

       java -Djava.awt.headless=true
       -DPLANTUML_LIMIT_SIZE=10240
       -Xmx1024m
       -jar "plantuml.1.2018.11.jar"
       -config "plantuml.config"
       -charset utf-8
       some.puml
       

     • error message

       Error line 0 in file: E:\Temp\some.puml
       Some diagram description contains errors
       

     • generated diagram

       [From e:\temp\some.puml (line 1) ]
       ---------------------------------------
       @startuml
       ~~~~~~~~~~
       Syntax Error?
       

• Temporary Solution
  • Remove all comments in the config file plantuml.config
• Affected versions
  • plantuml.1.2018.11.jar
• Working versions
  • plantuml.1.2018.10.jar
  • plantuml.1.2018.9.jar
  • plantuml.1.2018.1.jar
  • plantuml.1.2017.18.jar
  • plantuml.1.2017.16.jar

Answer 1

Many thanks for the report and the detailled explanation, it really helps.

This should be fixed in last beta http://beta.plantuml.net/plantuml.jar

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