From 1b5fda5df6267155e65972f08d6654429b104239 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felipe Santos <felipecassiors@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:33:34 -0300
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Fix parsing of double-quoted values with backslash
 continuations

When UnescapeValueDoubleQuotes is enabled, properly handle multiline
values where backslash continuations appear after quotes within the
value. Previously caused "key-value delimiter not found" errors.
---
 ini_test.go | 15 +++++++++++++++
 parser.go   |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ini_test.go b/ini_test.go
index 306a2a8..b5f2afd 100644
--- a/ini_test.go
+++ b/ini_test.go
@@ -567,6 +567,21 @@ key = test value <span style="color: %s\; background: %s">more text</span>
 			assert.Equal(t, `test value <span style="color: %s; background: %s">more text</span>`, f.Section("").Key("key").String())
 		})
 
+		t.Run("unescape double quotes with backslash continuation", func(t *testing.T) {
+			f, err := LoadSources(LoadOptions{
+				UnescapeValueDoubleQuotes: true,
+			}, []byte(`hello = "!f() { \
+  echo "hello world"; \
+};f"`))
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+			require.NotNil(t, f)
+
+			expected := `!f() { \
+  echo "hello world"; \
+};f`
+			assert.Equal(t, expected, f.Section("").Key("hello").String())
+		})
+
 		t.Run("can parse small python-compatible INI files", func(t *testing.T) {
 			f, err := LoadSources(LoadOptions{
 				AllowPythonMultilineValues: true,
diff --git a/parser.go b/parser.go
index 44fc526..909d633 100644
--- a/parser.go
+++ b/parser.go
@@ -181,6 +181,13 @@ func (p *parser) readMultilines(line, val, valQuote string) (string, error) {
 
 		pos := strings.LastIndex(next, valQuote)
 		if pos > -1 {
+			// Check if the line ends with backslash continuation after the quote
+			restOfLine := strings.TrimRight(next[pos+len(valQuote):], "\r\n")
+			if !p.options.IgnoreContinuation && strings.HasSuffix(strings.TrimSpace(restOfLine), "\\") {
+				val += next
+				continue
+			}
+
 			val += next[:pos]
 
 			comment, has := cleanComment([]byte(next[pos:]))

From 2d47b41a1d825ecf954f109ac2b0e82179c3ad09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felipe Santos <felipecassiors@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 18:47:00 -0300
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Add inverse test case with IgnoreContinuation

---
 ini_test.go | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ini_test.go b/ini_test.go
index b5f2afd..aaad1a0 100644
--- a/ini_test.go
+++ b/ini_test.go
@@ -580,6 +580,16 @@ key = test value <span style="color: %s\; background: %s">more text</span>
   echo "hello world"; \
 };f`
 			assert.Equal(t, expected, f.Section("").Key("hello").String())
+
+			t.Run("inverse case", func(t *testing.T) {
+				_, err := LoadSources(LoadOptions{
+					UnescapeValueDoubleQuotes: true,
+					IgnoreContinuation:        true,
+				}, []byte(`hello = "!f() { \
+  echo "hello world"; \
+};f"`))
+				require.Error(t, err)
+			})
 		})
 
 		t.Run("can parse small python-compatible INI files", func(t *testing.T) {

From c5638decd82ea58921f24662119ab9c6cc5e8f8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=E1=B4=8A=E1=B4=8F=E1=B4=87=20=E1=B4=84=CA=9C=E1=B4=87?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=C9=B4?= <jc@unknwon.io>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2026 12:52:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Update parser.go

---
 parser.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/parser.go b/parser.go
index 909d633..afed76f 100644
--- a/parser.go
+++ b/parser.go
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ func (p *parser) readMultilines(line, val, valQuote string) (string, error) {
 		if pos > -1 {
 			// Check if the line ends with backslash continuation after the quote
 			restOfLine := strings.TrimRight(next[pos+len(valQuote):], "\r\n")
-			if !p.options.IgnoreContinuation && strings.HasSuffix(strings.TrimSpace(restOfLine), "\\") {
+			if !p.options.IgnoreContinuation && strings.HasSuffix(strings.TrimSpace(restOfLine), `\`) {
 				val += next
 				continue
 			}