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13 Sep 2021

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• 20:26
  tomman
  well, it seems Gitlab just deployed its latest load of Chromeisms™, as it broke again on Seamonkey (even with JustOff's addon)
• 20:26
  tomman
  SyntaxError: invalid regexp group 21.4fceb368.chunk.js:1:37724
• 20:29
  tomman
  this regex, specifically: Re=/^&(?<iid>\d+)$/
• 20:33
  tomman
  I'm a total moron with regexes, so can anyone please tell me what's wrong with that one?
• 20:51
  robobox
  probably another WebComponents thing
• 21:50
  tomman
  it's a regex, tho...
• 22:01
  tomman
  let's test what that regex actually does...
• 22:01
  tomman
  regex101.com
• 22:02
  tomman
  it matches digits preceded by &, i.e. &12345
• 22:02
  tomman
  and the digits are captured in a named capture group
• 22:02
  tomman
  (the ?<iid> part, "iid" being the actual name)
• 22:05
  tomman
  developer.mozilla.org/es/docs/Web/J…ssions#compatibilidad_del_navegador
• 22:06
  tomman
  ...aaaand that was implemented on Firefox 78
• 22:06
  tomman
  Bummer...
• 22:06
  tomman
  ...at least today I learned something new (and useless... to me!)
• 22:06
  IanN_Away
  tomman: I think frg_Away was looking at the new regular expression stuff
• 22:06
  tomman
  if we rewrite the regex as Re=/^&(\d+)$/, it works
• 22:07
  tomman
  so not exactly a Chromeism™ this time then :/
• 22:08
  IanN_Away
  tomman: not sure, frg_Away probably has all the gorey details
• 22:09
  frg_Away
  tomman Waterfox Classic has imported it. WaterfoxCo/Waterfox #2229
• 22:09
  frg_Away
  Will öick it next but I am on the parser currently for the optional chaining operator. Trying to get both in but not done in a day :)
• 22:10
  tomman
  oooh~
• 22:10
  tomman
  Regexes are not my friends anyway :P
• 22:11
  tomman
  TIL you can name your capture groups - I guess it's easier to remember match.group("foo") instead of match.group(2)
• 22:11
  tomman
  but then you end writing more code!
• 22:12
  tomman
  wtf, Java supports those since Java 7
• 22:12
  tomman
  why bother with naming your capture groups for such a short regex, why why why?!
• 22:13
  tomman
  (it's the one and only group in this example!)
• 22:15
  tomman
  forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=…=218048&hilit=capture+group#p218048 similar issue at the other side of the fence
• 23:56
  robobox
  people still use java in browsers?
• 23:57
  tomman
  robobox: I'm pretty much sure that somewhere, someone is still being forced to use some horrible KVM Java applet for managing their server...
• 23:58
  frg_Away
  robobox not in the current ones I suspect. java plugin is dead as a doorstopper.