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Item2028: Character classes in regex SEARCH broken

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Priority: Enhancement
Current State: Confirmed
Released In: n/a
Target Release: n/a
Applies To: Engine
Component: SEARCH
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Reported By: MartinKaufmann
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Last Change By: GeorgeClark
The regex syntax for %SEARCH% is not implemented properly. I found at least two character classes which don't work as expected: \w and \s.

The example below illustrates the problem. The twi lines of text define the search target. The first search uses [a-z]+ and works as expected. The second search uses [\w]+ which should find the same but fails. In the third example, the white-space in the regex is written as a literal (" ") which works. If the white-space in the regex is replaced by \s, the search fails (4th search).

Under TWiki 4.1.2 all of these examples work as expected.

Search Target

footextbar

spam and some more text

Searched: ^foo[a-z]+bar

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Item2028
footextbar
r5 - 15 Mar 2011 - 02:45 by GeorgeClark
Number of topics: 1

Searched: ^foo[\w]+bar

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Item2028
footextbar
r5 - 15 Mar 2011 - 02:45 by GeorgeClark
Number of topics: 1

Searched: ^spam[a-z ]+text

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Item2028
spam and some more text
r5 - 15 Mar 2011 - 02:45 by GeorgeClark
Number of topics: 1

Searched: ^spam[a-z\s]+text

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Item2028
spam and some more text
r5 - 15 Mar 2011 - 02:45 by GeorgeClark
Number of topics: 1

-- MartinKaufmann

confirmed (painfully) that \s and such don't work. not confirmed in the sense that i don't know it was ever spec'ed to wok... :/ confirming, but changing to an enhancement until/unless there's documentation to point at saying this is supposed to work or was ever implemented.

-- WillNorris - 15 Feb 2010

I haven't come across any documentation either. I can only show some screenshots taken on my old TWiki® 4.1.2 installation.
  • Character class \s:
    regex-screenshot-1.png
  • Character class \w:
    regex-screenshot-2.png

-- MartinKaufmann - 15 Feb 2010

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Summary Character classes in regex SEARCH broken
ReportedBy MartinKaufmann
Codebase 1.0.6
SVN Range Foswiki-1.0.0, Thu, 08 Jan 2009, build 1878
AppliesTo Engine
Component SEARCH
Priority Enhancement
CurrentState Confirmed
WaitingFor
Checkins
TargetRelease n/a
ReleasedIn n/a
I Attachment Action Size Date Who Comment
regex-screenshot-1.pngpng regex-screenshot-1.png manage 8 K 15 Feb 2010 - 10:28 MartinKaufmann TWiki 4.1.2 regex screenshot
regex-screenshot-2.pngpng regex-screenshot-2.png manage 8 K 15 Feb 2010 - 10:29 MartinKaufmann TWiki 4.1.2 regex screenshot
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