Getting errors when I run Terraform on VS Code: Unknown token:4:20 IDENT string [4,20]

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I am having issues with my ‘variables.tf’ code.
The type = string for variable “resource_group_name” gets this error message: Unknown token:4:20 IDENT string [4,20]

I cannot figure out how to fix this…

variable “resource_group_name” {
type = string
description = “The name of the resource group”
}

terraformError
terraformError704×727 48.8 KB

2

The string keyword is supposed to be quoted. HCL is still somewhat valid JSON.

3

Not in terraform 0.12

4

So what is the correct way to do this?

5

What version of terraform are you running?

If it’s 0.11, you have to quote “string”.