elm-community / elm-community/string-extra
invalid range error when using dasherize()
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Description
While testing an application built with Elm, I came across an error triggered by using the dasherize() method. It seems that the RegEx `[_-\\s]+` used in the method is not a legitimate expression in many languages and javascript parsers written in those languages throw an exception when executing this code because the `-` is seen as part of an invalid range terminated by a character group.
I'm not sure of all of the use cases, but ECMAScript seems to interpret the expression as a range without an end. But it also seems that the desired behavior (as I see it) could also be achieved using the RegEx
`[_\\s-]+` or even
`[_\-\\s]+"` so that the "-" is not interpreted as a range. But it might be the case that an open ended range is required for some cases, though a range that begins with "_" seems like it would match nearly everything.
I'm not certain, so opening an issue.
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