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description: Avoid trailing whitespace
ms.date: 06/28/2023
ms.topic: reference
title: AvoidTrailingWhitespace
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# AvoidTrailingWhitespace

**Severity Level: Information**

## Description

Lines should not end with whitespace characters. This can cause problems with the line-continuation
backtick, and also clutters up future commits to source control.
