Error: Unhandled error: SyntaxError: Unexpected token '{'

Hello!

I use this workflow element (To Reproduce section) to display the terraform plan, the variable ${{ steps.show-plan.outputs.stdout }} contains a string with special characters plus json elements.

How to avoid this issue? Probably I need to encode the string somehow ..

Tried including result-encoding: string but same result.
By the way, about a month ago this workflow worked fine.

Describe the bug

SyntaxError: Unexpected token '{'
    at new AsyncFunction (<anonymous>)
    at callAsyncFunction (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v6/dist/index.js:15143:16)
    at main (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v6/dist/index.js:15236:26)
    at /home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v6/dist/index.js:15217:1
    at /home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v6/dist/index.js:15268:3
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v6/dist/index.js:15[271](https://github.com/parloa/parloa-infra/actions/runs/5422135137/jobs/9858405881#step:12:272):12)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1105:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1159:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
Error: Unhandled error: SyntaxError: Unexpected token '{'
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To Reproduce

   - name: Update Pull Request
      uses: actions/github-script@v6
      with:
        github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        result-encoding: string
        script: |
          const output = `
          <details><summary>Show Plan</summary>
          \`\`\`\n
          ${{ steps.show-workspace.outputs.stdout }}
          ${{ steps.show-var-file.outputs.stdout }}
          ${{ steps.show-plan.outputs.stdout }}
          \`\`\`
          </details>
          `;
          
          github.rest.issues.createComment({
            issue_number: context.issue.number,
            owner: context.repo.owner,
            repo: context.repo.repo,
            body: output
          })

Desktop (please complete the following information):

GitHub Action

The values you're injecting into that template string are likely invalid Javascript and aren't being escaped correctly.

I'd recommend setting those context values as environment variables and referencing them via process.env and the regular ${} template literal string interpolation.

   - name: Update Pull Request
      uses: actions/github-script@v6
      env:
        SHOW_WORKSPACE_OUTPUT: ${{ steps.show-workspace.outputs.stdout }}
        SHOW_VAR_FILE_OUTPUT: ${{ steps.show-var-file.outputs.stdout }}
        SHOW_PLAN_OUTPUT: ${{ steps.show-plan.outputs.stdout }}
      with:
        github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        result-encoding: string
        script: |
          const output = `
          <details><summary>Show Plan</summary>
          \`\`\`\n
          ${process.env.SHOW_WORKSPACE_OUTPUT}
          ${process.env.SHOW_VAR_FILE_OUTPUT}
          ${process.env.SHOW_PLAN_OUTPUT}
          \`\`\`
          </details>
          `;
          
          github.rest.issues.createComment({
            issue_number: context.issue.number,
            owner: context.repo.owner,
            repo: context.repo.repo,
            body: output
          })

thank you!
it works.

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