Updated documentation to include backreferences

implementBackreferences
Aadhavan Srinivasan 4 weeks ago
parent 81b8b1b11c
commit 2e47c631bb

@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Single characters:
[^abc] Negated character class - match any character except a, b and c
[^a-z] Negated character range - do not match any character from a to z
\[ Match a literal '['. Backslashes can escape any character with special meaning, including another backslash.
\452 Match the character with the octal value 452 (up to 3 digits)
\0452 Match the character with the octal value 452 (up to 4 digits, first digit must be 0)
\xFF Match the character with the hex value FF (exactly 2 characters)
\x{0000FF} Match the character with the hex value 0000FF (exactly 6 characters)
\n Newline
@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ Lookarounds:
(?<=x)y Positive lookbehind - Match y if preceded by x
(?<!x)y Negative lookbehind - Match y if NOT preceded by x
Backreferences:
(xy)\1 Match 'xy' followed by the text most recently captured by group 1 (in this case, 'xy')
Numeric ranges:
<x-y> Match any number from x to y (inclusive) (x and y must be positive numbers)
@ -156,6 +160,7 @@ The following features from [regexp] are (currently) NOT supported:
The following features are not available in [regexp], but are supported in my engine:
1. Lookarounds
2. Numeric ranges
3. Backreferences
I hope to shorten the first list, and expand the second.
*/

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