mathworks / mathworks/MATLAB-Language-grammar
Many regexes incompatible with GitHub syntax highlighting
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- Dominant language
- MATLAB
- Stars
- 64
- Forks
- 22
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Description
GitHub uses PCRE as the regex engine
and doesn't allow variable length lookbehinds (?<=a+)
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the regular-expression definitions in this MATLAB grammar and compare them with GitHub's PCRE support, focusing on variable-length lookbehinds. Update the incompatible expressions so GitHub accepts the grammar and verify that MATLAB syntax highlighting still works across the affected patterns.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- matlab
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100