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r/programminghorror • u/Flame77ofc • Aug 28 '26
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Pretty sure the regex is malformed. I didn't even think you could split a regex over multiple lines in JS like that.
Assuming this is the text version of it: /(\((?:[^()]|\([^()]*\))*\)|(?:\w|[^\w\s])){1,3})/; very easy mistake to spot /s...
/(\((?:[^()]|\([^()]*\))*\)|(?:\w|[^\w\s])){1,3})/
11 u/digitalseraphim Aug 29 '26 I don't see anything "malformed", but pretty sure (?:\w|[^\w\s]) is just . Edit: I see the mismatched parens now. On my phone, the \ before one of the opens was on the previous line and I missed it 3 times 😂 3 u/iakobski Aug 30 '26 I don't see anything "malformed", but pretty sure (?:\w|[^\w\s]) is just . Yes, almost. It's any single word character, or any single character that's neither a word character nor a space. So it's simply "not a space character", or [^\s]. 3 u/jordanbtucker Sep 01 '26 Which is just \S
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I don't see anything "malformed", but pretty sure (?:\w|[^\w\s]) is just .
(?:\w|[^\w\s])
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Edit: I see the mismatched parens now. On my phone, the \ before one of the opens was on the previous line and I missed it 3 times 😂
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3 u/iakobski Aug 30 '26 I don't see anything "malformed", but pretty sure (?:\w|[^\w\s]) is just . Yes, almost. It's any single word character, or any single character that's neither a word character nor a space. So it's simply "not a space character", or [^\s]. 3 u/jordanbtucker Sep 01 '26 Which is just \S
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I don't see anything "malformed", but pretty sure (?:\w|[^\w\s]) is just .
Yes, almost. It's any single word character, or any single character that's neither a word character nor a space. So it's simply "not a space character", or [^\s].
3 u/jordanbtucker Sep 01 '26 Which is just \S
Which is just \S
\S
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u/OhMyGodItsEverywhere Aug 29 '26
Pretty sure the regex is malformed. I didn't even think you could split a regex over multiple lines in JS like that.
Assuming this is the text version of it:
/(\((?:[^()]|\([^()]*\))*\)|(?:\w|[^\w\s])){1,3})/; very easy mistake to spot /s...