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Unknown directive

ID: js/unknown-directive Kind: problem Security severity: Severity: warning Precision: high Tags: - quality - reliability - correctness Query suites: - javascript-code-quality.qls - javascript-security-and-quality.qls 

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If a directive is accidentally misspelled, it will have no effect.

Recommendation

Correct the misspelling.

Example

The following code snippet shows a function that contains a "usestrict" directive. Most likely, the programmer intended this to be a "use strict" directive, but due to the typo, the function will not execute in strict mode.

function f() {  "usestrict";  ... } 

Correct the misspelling by replacing "usestrict" with "use strict".

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