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I'm trying to match PowerShell dash comments (# ...) but not inline comments (<# .. #>) in same regex. How can I achieve it?

I'd like to match PowerShell comments (using hashtag comment syntax). So simply everything after # is commented out. I use #(.*$)/gm for it.

Test-cases where the regex match is written inside brackets [..]:

• Write-Host "Hello world" [# comment here]
• [# A line with only comment]
• Comment without whitespace[#before]
• [Comment with whitespace [#after ]

However what I'd like to use here is have an exception for "inline comments syntax". Inline comments in PowerShell looks like lorem <# inline comment #> ipsus.

So here I'm looking for exclusions for:

• Write-Host "Hello world" <# inline comment here #>
• <# A line with only inline comment #>
• Comment without whitespace<#no whitespace#>around
• Inline comment <# in middle #> of line
• Comment with whitespace #comment with >
• Comment with whitespace #comment with <
• Comment with whitespace #comment with <# test #>

I tried to use [^<>] for something like #[^<>](.*[^<>]$) but it did not work for all cases given in the above.

My progress on regex101 until I got stuck.

I'm parsing PowerShell in JavaScript/TypeScript runtime to be able to inline them to run them in batch (cmd) for a community driven open-source project. I know there will be exceptions to this (like strings with dashes inside) but I trade off simple regex parsing for robustness.

Thank you!