Problem with assigning variable with value ending with colon

[mahi124]

Not sure if this is a bug or not. But looks like a bug to me...

Check the below code

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Driveget, dlist, list
Loop, Parse, dlist
{
thisDrive=%A_LoopField%:   		; <- this doesn't work, thisDrive is blank here

thisDrive = %A_LoopField%:  	; <- works fine
thisDrive := A_LoopField ":"  	; <- works fine
}

str = abcdef

test_var=%str%:   				; <- this doesn't work either

[lexikos]

That's a label.

Label names are not case sensitive, and may consist of any characters other than space, tab, comma and the escape character (`).
https://autohotkey.com/docs/misc/Labels.htm

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goto test_var=`%str`%
test_var=%str%:
MsgBox % A_ThisLabel

This is one reason to include whitespace around operators.