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Invalid regular expression: /\boperator++\s*(?:<[^<>()]*>)?\s*\(/: Nothing to repeat (v1.6.2)

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2/5
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Under an hour
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Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
devtools

Research direction

The failing pattern is a regular expression literal that matches C++ operator++ declarations; search the repository source for the string operator++ to find it. The ++ is treated as a quantifier with nothing before it, so the plus signs need escaping. Done when the pattern compiles and still matches operator++( and operator++<T>( in a sample, which you can confirm by running the project's tests for that parser.

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Description

Invalid regular expression: /\boperator++\s*(?:<[^<>()]>)?\s(/: Nothing to repeat (v1.6.2)

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