• Alex Folland <lexlexlex gmail.com> Feb 03 2011
• Alex Folland <lexlexlex gmail.com> Feb 03 2011
• Alex Folland <lexlexlex gmail.com> Feb 03 2011
• Alex Folland <lexlexlex gmail.com> Feb 03 2011
• Stanislav Blinov <blinov loniir.ru> Feb 03 2011
• Stanislav Blinov <blinov loniir.ru> Feb 03 2011

Alex Folland <lexlexlex gmail.com> writes:

I'm using std.regex from Phobos 2, which I heard was relatively new.  My 
regex is supposed to match a time to start playback in a game replay's 
file name (usually user-written).  It's very adaptive and works 
perfectly on http://regextester.com but doesn't match properly with Phobos.

I wrote a test program which displays filenames and the matched timecodes.
It's located here: http://lex.clansfx.co.uk/projects/wagametimecodes.d

The regex (might have to widen your mail client to see it properly):

((start|begin|enter|play(back)?)[\s_-]*)?(( |at|from)[\s_-]*)?(\d+([\.\-']|[\s_-]*|m(in(ute)?)?|[\s_-]*and[\s_-]*)*(s(ec(ond)?)?)?){1,3}
\_____________Ignore this part.__It works 
perfectly._________/\_______________This part is supposed to match time 
codes._______________/

The problematic string:

Guaton_at_9min59sec.WAgame

regextester.com matches "at_9min59sec" altogether perfectly, which is 
what I want to happen.
std.regex matches "at_9" and "59s", which I don't want to happen.

std.regex was matching "at_9min59s" before I changed the way it finds 
variations of "minute" and "second" from "[ms][inutecond]*" to its 
current method.  It was better before.  Now the numbers aren't even joined.

All in all, I'm pretty sure this is a std.regex bug, but I don't want to 
waste Andrei's time if it's not, since I'm not that experienced.

Alex Folland <lexlexlex gmail.com> writes:

I figured something out, at least.  I had forgotten to use backslashes 
before the hyphens in the [...]s.  That makes the matches link together 
as expected, but it still doesn't make "s(ec(ond)?)?" match "sec" like 
it should.  It just matches "s".

For example, with std.regex, the following regex doesn't match the full 
string below it.

(\d+([\.\-\s_']|and|m(in(ute)?s?)?|s(ec(ond)?s?)?)*){1,3}
9min59sec24

It does match on http://regextester.com .  This is pretty clearly a bug 
at this point.  I don't see what else I could be doing wrong.

Alex Folland <lexlexlex gmail.com> writes:

I figured out the bug.  Inside a set of square brackets, \s doesn't 
match whitespace.  It matches s instead.  I'm uncertain exactly how the 
ECMA-262 part 15.10 regular expression specification is meant to handle 
that situation.

Alex Folland <lexlexlex gmail.com> writes:

On 2011-02-03 10:21, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
 03.02.2011 18:03, Alex Folland пишет:
 I figured out the bug. Inside a set of square brackets, \s doesn't
 match whitespace. It matches s instead. I'm uncertain exactly how the
 ECMA-262 part 15.10 regular expression specification is meant to
 handle that situation.



 foreach(m; match("a b c d e", regex("[a-z][\\s]?")))
 {
 writefln("%s[%s]%s", m.pre, m.hit, m.post);
 }


Okay, now actually try the test I suggested.  I found it was working in 
other sections too, but not in this test which has another "s" section 
it's supposed to look for.

Since it's broken, you'll see 2 matches instead of 1.

module main;

import std.stdio,std.regex;

void main()
{
   foreach(m; match("9min59sec24", 
regex(`(\d+([\s_]|and|m(in(ute)?s?)?|s(ec(ond)?s?)?)*){1,3}`, "gi")))
     writefln("%s[%s]%s", m.pre, m.hit, m.post);
   return;
}

Stanislav Blinov <blinov loniir.ru> writes:

03.02.2011 19:08, Alex Folland пишет:
 On 2011-02-03 10:21, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
 03.02.2011 18:03, Alex Folland пишет:
 I figured out the bug. Inside a set of square brackets, \s doesn't
 match whitespace. It matches s instead. I'm uncertain exactly how the
 ECMA-262 part 15.10 regular expression specification is meant to
 handle that situation.



 foreach(m; match("a b c d e", regex("[a-z][\\s]?")))
 {
 writefln("%s[%s]%s", m.pre, m.hit, m.post);
 }


 Okay, now actually try the test I suggested.  I found it was working 
 in other sections too, but not in this test which has another "s" 
 section it's supposed to look for.

 Since it's broken, you'll see 2 matches instead of 1.

 module main;

 import std.stdio,std.regex;

 void main()
 {
   foreach(m; match("9min59sec24", 
 regex(`(\d+([\s_]|and|m(in(ute)?s?)?|s(ec(ond)?s?)?)*){1,3}`, "gi")))
     writefln("%s[%s]%s", m.pre, m.hit, m.post);
   return;


Oh, yes, I see it now.

Stanislav Blinov <blinov loniir.ru> writes:

03.02.2011 18:03, Alex Folland пишет:
 I figured out the bug. Inside a set of square brackets, \s doesn't 
 match whitespace. It matches s instead. I'm uncertain exactly how the 
 ECMA-262 part 15.10 regular expression specification is meant to 
 handle that situation.



foreach(m; match("a b c d e", regex("[a-z][\\s]?")))
{
writefln("%s[%s]%s", m.pre, m.hit, m.post);
}