I had this issue, where I was trying to use customName annotation to rename methods and I noticed that it was also including a new line and the first word of the next line. For example:

/**@noSelf */declarenamespaceTestNamespace{/**     *@customName pass     * The first word should not be included.     **/functionfail():void;}TestNamespace.fail();

Would result in:

TestNamespace["pass\nThe"]()

The solution was pretty simple, I only had to get the first line before splitting it by space.
I ran the tests and everything passes. Let me know if there's other changes I need to make.