Capturing Groups

[gskinner]

Capturing Groups

[gskinner]

Definitely on our list. It's a difficult feature to implement accurately, because JS RegExp does not return any of this information, so we need to tease it out using trickery. Leaving this open for now.

[steven-prybylynskyi]

probably the regexp input string have to be split, parsed and run separately for each captured group
oh well, it's much more complicated than i think

[gskinner]

It's not that simple. For example:

.*(a)

will match differently than

.*?(a)

will match differently than

.*?

Regular expression tokens are not discrete. They can only be resolved in the context of the full pattern.

On Mar 28, 2014, at 10:14 , stevenp [email protected] wrote:

probably the regexp input string have to be split, parsed and run separately for each captured group

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[gskinner]

Just to add to this - the HiFi tester is completely inaccurate in terms of showing capture groups. They are simply finding the first instance of the group within the match, which obviously isn't correct.

You can test the above example:
.*(a)
in their tester, and see that it highlights the first "a" in the match, when it should highlight the last one.

I'd rather not have this info at all, than have it be incorrect.

[steven-prybylynskyi]

Yep, i've got often incorrect results that was differ from browser's JS RegExp, hence all the hopes on regexr ;)

[gskinner]

As a quick update on this one, I am currently working on an enhanced tools panel, which could include the table view, or something similar. We're probably not going to get group highlighting in any time soon (it's a huge can of worms to get right, and we'll only put it in if it provides accurate results).

[steven-prybylynskyi]

Great news, Grant

[bradisbell]

Even if you can't associate the captured data with the capture group, it would be helpful just to output the raw result anyway... the equivalent of console.log() on the match.

[gskinner]

I'm actually working on a Details tool at this very moment that will show the full text of a selected match and each group. Does it sound like that will do what you need?

[bradisbell]

Yes, exactly!
On Dec 14, 2015 11:28 AM, "Grant Skinner" [email protected] wrote:

I'm actually working on a Details tool at this very moment that will show
the full text of a selected match and each group. Does it sound like that
will do what you need?

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#6 (comment).

[gskinner]

Details shipped in v2.1, so I'm closing this rather belatedly. As a quick note, the Details tool in v3.0 is more robust, especially when using the PCRE engine (which provides position info for groups).

[eromoe]

But groups color still not show now , only way to see group is using Detail tools?