How to ignore comments in a key=value file

[gperrow]

I am running vale (for spell-checking) on files containing key=value pairs, like this:

name1=This is a string
name2=This is another string
# This is a comment

This works well - the names (name1, name2) are not checked for spelling but the strings are, which is exactly what I want. However I want to skip spell checking the comment lines.

My .vale.ini file looks like:

StylesPath = styles
[*.properties]
BasedOnStyles = tooling-spelling

and my tooling-spelling.yml file is

extends: spelling
message: "Spelling error: '%s'"
level: error
ignore:
  - ignore-words.txt

I've tried adding IgnoredScopes = comment, comment.line to the [*.properties] section of .vale.ini, and I've tried TokenIgnores = (^#.*$) and both seem to be ignored. Is there a way to ignore such comments?

[jdkato]

IgnoredScopes and TokenIgnores only work for supported file formats.