From: Abdulrahman Semrie <hsamireh@gmail.com>
To: 36251@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36251: Regex library doesn't recognize ']' in a character class
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 20:16:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad11135c-ebba-4ffb-827d-a8eebd7fa023@Canary> (raw)
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I am using the pattern [\\[\\]a-zA-Z]+ to match a string with left or right bracket in it. However, the string-match function doesn’t match the ‘]’ character. To demonstrate with an example, try the following funciton:
(string-match "[\\[\\]a-zA-Z]+" "Text[ab]”)
The result for the above function should have been a match structure with Text[ab] matched. However, the string-match returns #f which is incorrect. To test if the pattern I am using was right, I tried on regex101.com and it works. Here (https://regex101.com/r/VAl6aI/1) is the link that demonstrates that it works.
Hence, the above leads me to believe there is a bug in the regex library that mishandles ] character in character-classes
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Regards,
Abdulrahman Semrie
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2019-06-16 17:16 Abdulrahman Semrie [this message]
2019-06-16 19:40 ` bug#36251: Regex library doesn't recognize ']' in a character class tomas
2019-06-18 11:08 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-06-18 11:20 ` tomas
2019-06-28 11:21 ` David Pirotte
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