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bug #62705: Some regex patterns are incorrectly treated as named expressions

Submitter:  Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
Submitted:  Mon 04 Jul 2022 07:31:01 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Octave Function Severity:  1 - Wish
Priority:  1 - Later Item Group:  Incorrect Result
Status:  Confirmed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Open
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Tue 05 Jul 2022 06:22:47 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Lowering the Priority even further to "Later".  We don't really need to take this up unless Matlab changes their behavior.

 Rik <rik5>
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Tue 05 Jul 2022 12:39:18 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Thanks for checking. Maybe they struggle with the same issues that we do.
I checked on https://regex101.com/. IIUC, the last example should theoretically match.
But it is comforting to know that at least we are a bit more compatible in that respect now.

Lowering the priority since - although regular expressions of that type aren't matched correctly - they aren't in Matlab either (at least as of now)...

 Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
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Tue 05 Jul 2022 11:55:57 AM UTC, comment #2: 

I tested in Matlab online and the three first examples return 1, and the last one returns empty "[]" in Matlab as it now does Octave. So at least the current behavior is fully ML compatible for the 4 examples provided.

 Pantxo Diribarne <pantxo>
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Mon 04 Jul 2022 07:43:01 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I pushed a patch that fixes this for the first three examples here:
https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/7d3bda173b63

The last pattern is more difficult to detect as not a named pattern. I'm not sure if it is worth the additional complexity...

Leaving this open in case someone would like to work on this.

 Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
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Mon 04 Jul 2022 07:31:01 PM UTC, original submission:  

The following patterns are incorrectly classified as named expressions by Octave. Named expressions are transformed to PCRE syntax. This leads to the (incorrectly classified) patterns to not match where they should:

regexpi ('<', '\(?<')
regexpi ('<n>', '\(?<n\>')
regexpi ('<n>', '\(?<n\>\)?')
regexpi ('<n>a', '\(?<n\>a\)?')


IIUC, all of these should return `1`. But they return `[]` (or crash or emit an error before the fix for bug #62704).

I have a fix for some of those ready that I'll push when I have a bug number.

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2022-07-05 rik5 Priority3 - Low 1 - Later
    2022-07-05 mmuetzel Severity3 - Normal 1 - Wish
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