Thanks! I wasn't able to glean that from the spec. It is admittedly
confusing and not very obvious, but I was just curious.
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016, 16:41 Claude Pache wrote:
>
> > Le 3 juin 2016 à 10:20, Isiah Meadows a écrit :
> >
> > These three RegExps don't appear valid, even after reading the
> Le 3 juin 2016 à 10:20, Isiah Meadows a écrit :
>
> These three RegExps don't appear valid, even after reading the Annex B, but
> they do behave consistently in both Chrome and Firefox. They are listed here
> with equivalent regexps:
>
> - `/[[]/` -> `/\[\[\]/`
> - `/[]]/` -> `/(?!)/` (i.e.
JavaScriptCore / Safari supports these three RegExp's. Like the other
implementations, I don’t think the second matches anything.
- Michael
> On Jun 3, 2016, at 6:48 AM, Andy Earnshaw wrote:
>
> IE has supported all of these for as long as I can remember. AFAIK, it's
> never been a requirem
Older versions of IE did not support [^] as a way of saying any char as I
discovered when writing minified passes so I'm surprised to hear that IE
has consistently supported [].
On Jun 3, 2016 9:48 AM, "Andy Earnshaw" wrote:
> IE has supported all of these for as long as I can remember. AFAIK, i
IE has supported all of these for as long as I can remember. AFAIK, it's
never been a requirement _in browsers_ to escape [ inside a character class
or ] outside e.g. `/[[]/` ([ is inside) or `/[]]/` (] is outside). If it's
not the case in the spec (I haven't checked the spec grammar), it should
On 6/3/16 4:20 AM, Isiah Meadows wrote:
These three RegExps don't appear valid, even after reading the Annex B,
but they do behave consistently in both Chrome and Firefox.
Note that Chrome and Firefox use the same regexp implementation, so them
agreeing on how a regexp is handled means a lot l
Jeremy Darling wrote:
/[]]/ This one throws me, that should require the first ] to be escaped
(\]) to be useful. I can see it parse and accept but have no clue why or
what it would do. It should throw an error.
I can't see it accept anything. Afaics, it's equivalent to /[]\]/ -
which contai
The first and the last are def vaild and I've used the first as a partial
plenty of times.
Basically [[] is the same as saying /\[/ just a little bit longer, match a
single character from the set [.
/[[]/.exec('[]') -> '['
There is nothing special about /a{,,/ its just a normal match these
charac
These three RegExps don't appear valid, even after reading the Annex B, but
they do behave consistently in both Chrome and Firefox. They are listed
here with equivalent regexps:
- `/[[]/` -> `/\[\[\]/`
- `/[]]/` -> `/(?!)/` (i.e. nothing)
- `/a{,,/` -> `/a\{,,+/`
Is this a spec bug or an implemen
9 matches
Mail list logo
