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Support for non-greedy/lazy wildcards

Open matanlb opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

Hey,

I've recently found about about this package and started to convert or regexes :)

One major thing I noticed missing is the ability to add lazy/non-greedy wildcards. I thing All functions that make use of the '' or '+' wildcard should have an optional parameter or an equivalent functions that uses '?'/'+?' Since the code puts most of the expressions in a non-capturing group we can't just use .add('?') afterward.

This was discussed a bit in the dart repo. This is really important to avoid unexpected inclusion in the wildcard.

Effected functions: anything, anythingBut, something, somethingBut, multiple.

OneOrMore should probably be included as well but currently it doesn't use a non-capturing so we still follow it up with .add('?')

matanlb avatar Aug 27 '20 09:08 matanlb

This is going to be a thing in version 2. You'll be able to use multiple.lazy and multiple.greedy (alias) in addition to multiple and similarly with the rest of the repetition operators.

shreyasminocha avatar Aug 27 '20 09:08 shreyasminocha