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Feature Request: Support in-pattern named groups

Open KyNorthstar opened this issue 4 years ago • 0 comments

I'd love to have this support the same named groups that NSRE supports, like this:

// NSRegularExpression
try! NSRegularExpression(pattern:
        "^(?<major>\\d+)\\." +
        "(?<minor>\\d+)\\." +
        "(?<patch>\\d+)" +
        "(?:-(?<preRelease>(?:(?<preReleaseId>[0-9A-Za-z-]+)\\.?)+))?" +
        "(?:\\+(?<build>(?:(?<buildId>[0-9A-Za-z-]+)\\.?)+))?$",
        options: [])

// Crossroad Labs Regex
try! Regex(pattern:
        "^(?<major>\\d+)\\." +
        "(?<minor>\\d+)\\." +
        "(?<patch>\\d+)" +
        "(?:-(?<preRelease>(?:(?<preReleaseId>[0-9A-Za-z-]+)\\.?)+))?" +
        "(?:\\+(?<build>(?:(?<buildId>[0-9A-Za-z-]+)\\.?)+))?$",
        groupNames: "major", "minor", "patch", "preRelease", "preReleaseId", "build", "buildId")

This feels fragile to me; I feel like it might easily slip so that one group's name doesn't represent the intended group, and that might be subtle enough to not catch in testing.

It's also silly because it accepts the same syntax for in-pattern group names that NSRegularExpression accepts, without using it.

KyNorthstar avatar Jun 03 '21 21:06 KyNorthstar