@bablr/language-en-regex-vm-pattern
v0.11.0
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A BABLR language for nonbacktracking JS-style regexes
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@bablr/language-en-regex-vm-pattern
This BABLR grammar defines a subset of regex that is safe to use in a nonbacktracking regex engine, in particular @bablr/regex-vm.
The language
The language is the same as Javascript Regex except for these deifferences:
Expressions always use "unicode mode" escaping rules. Only valid escapes are syntactically legal.
Expressions do not support lookbehind (
/(?<=abc)/and/(?<!abc)/).Expressions do not (and will not) support backreferences (
/(.)\0/).Expressions do not support lookahead (yet) (
/(?=abc)/and/(?!abc)/). See #11.Expressions do not support named capture groups (
/(?<name>)/) (yet).
