From cc184bec50446a262164d037a14f3e093c4833a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: vhinayindia <281186805+vhinayindia@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2026 20:20:16 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix: strip inline comments after quoted values

---
 lib/ini.js            |  4 ++++
 test/quoted-values.js | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 test/quoted-values.js

diff --git a/lib/ini.js b/lib/ini.js
index beb390d..aedb823 100644
--- a/lib/ini.js
+++ b/lib/ini.js
@@ -229,6 +229,10 @@ const safe = val => {
 
 const unsafe = val => {
   val = (val || '').trim()
+  const quotedValue = val.match(/^("(?:\\.|[^"\\])*"|'(?:\\.|[^'\\])*')\s*[;#]/)
+  if (quotedValue) {
+    val = quotedValue[1]
+  }
   if (isQuoted(val)) {
     // remove the single quotes before calling JSON.parse
     if (val.charAt(0) === "'") {
diff --git a/test/quoted-values.js b/test/quoted-values.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a2bc4e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/quoted-values.js
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+const ini = require('../')
+const tap = require('tap')
+
+tap.test('quoted values with inline comments', t => {
+  t.same(ini.parse('a.b = "c" ; asdf'), { 'a.b': 'c' })
+  t.same(ini.parse("value = 'quoted' # comment"), { value: 'quoted' })
+  t.same(ini.parse('value = "semi;colon" ; comment'), { value: 'semi;colon' })
+  t.same(ini.parse('value = plain ; comment'), { value: 'plain' })
+  t.end()
+})