Regexes break on whitespace
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bug
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 132
- Forks
- 9
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
Right now, regexes break if they contain literal whitespace (the tokeniser breaks them apart). ToDo fix.
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Research direction
Start by tracing the tokenizer mentioned in the issue and reproduce the failure with a regex containing literal whitespace. Done means such regexes remain a single token and continue through compilation correctly; add or update a focused regression test if the repository has tokenizer tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100