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Properly handle meta-characters from Java regexes

Open hyperpape opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

There are a number of unsupported meta-characters that the standard Java regexes support. While I don't know if I'd support all of them, we should make sure that, for sake of avoiding confusion, it's not true that this library will parse them and give them a meaning different from what the standard library does.

Case in point:

backreferences: \1 quotation: \Q, \E reluctant quantifiers: X??

possibly others.

hyperpape avatar Jan 13 '24 23:01 hyperpape