Issues with obfuscated regex matches

[paambaati]

In my code, I do a regex match for a string like this.

str.match('^\\d+$')

This gets obfuscated to -

str.match("\x5e\d\x2b\x24")

This doesn't seem to work though, as seen below -

> str="12345678901234567890";
'12345678901234567890'
> str.match('^\\d+$')
[ '12345678901234567890',
  index: 0,
  input: '12345678901234567890' ]
> str.match("\x5e\d\x2b\x24")
null

[stephenmathieson]

hmm looks like we're loosing characters as '\x5e\d\x2b\x24' == '^d+$'. this is definitely a bug.

as a quick fix (on your end), just pass a RegExp to String#match rather than a string.

[paambaati]

@stephenmathieson Ah, that fixes my issue for now.