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missing matches in RE alternative cause UTF-8 decode error #171
If a match target appears in an alternative an error is thrown:
$ ghci
Prelude> importText.RE.PCRE.String
Prelude PCRE.String> r = [re|foo(A${here}(.*)B|C${there}(.*)D)|]
Prelude PCRE.String> allMatches ("foobar" *=~ r)
[]
Prelude PCRE.String> allMatches ("fooAoneB" *=~ r)
[ Match {matchSource = "fooAoneB", .... *** Exception: utf8_correct_bs: UTF-8 decoding error
CallStack (from HasCallStack):
error, called at ./Text/RE/ZeInternals/Types/Match.lhs:248:13 in regex-1.0.2.0-CuYMcTBVvnH4p7K8LCU2iN:Text.RE.ZeInternals.Types.Match
Prelude PCRE.String> allMatches ("fooCtwoD" *=~ r)
[ Match {matchSource = "fooCtwoD", ... [same error]
This seems to be related to the branch where the match is not found:
PCRE.String> r = [re|foo(A${here}(.*)B|CD)|]
PCRE.String> allMatches ("foobar" *=~ r)
[]
PCRE.String> allMatches ("fooAbarB" *=~ r)
... valid match, no error ...
PCRE.String> allMatches ("fooCD" *=~ r)
... error as above...
It's possible this is an invalid usage on my part, but I would expect a different type of error than a UTF-8 decoding error. Additionally, I originally had the same match name on both alternatives and got the same error, so I should have had a valid match regardless of which alternative matched.
The same thing seems to be triggered if a group is optional and isn't present in the tested string. In the program below, the optional trailing zero isn't there, so I would expect to get a Nothing from captureTextMaybe.
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mnn commentedon Oct 10, 2020
The bug is still present:
package versions:
$ stack ls dependencies | grep regex regex 1.1.0.0 regex-base 0.94.0.0 regex-pcre-builtin 0.95.1.2.8.43 regex-tdfa 1.3.1.0 regex-with-pcre 1.1.0.0jbash commentedon Oct 23, 2021
The same thing seems to be triggered if a group is optional and isn't present in the tested string. In the program below, the optional trailing zero isn't there, so I would expect to get a Nothing from captureTextMaybe.
The actual result is
This is still in 1.1.0.0 as supplied by Stackage LTS 18.13
Trajjan commentedon Mar 4, 2022
I have a similar bug with version 1.1.0.1
{-# LANGUAGE QuasiQuotes #-} module Main where import Text.RE.PCRE.String import Lib main :: IO () main = print $ "abcd, 1234, EFGH" *=~ [re|\s*([\S]*)(,)*|]With the result
It surely comes from the fact that the library try to fetch the Char after the H to compare it to the ,
1.1.0.2: fix for #171