Started working on unicode character classes

regex/compile.go

@@ -108,6 +108,48 @@ func getPOSIXClass(str []rune) (bool, string) {
 	return true, rtv
 }
 
+// isUnicodeCharClassLetter returns whether or not the given letter represents a unicode character class.
+func isUnicodeCharClassLetter(c rune) bool {
+	return slices.Contains([]rune{'L', 'M', 'S', 'N', 'P', 'C', 'Z'}, c)
+}
+
+// rangeTableToRuneSlice converts the given range table into a rune slice and returns it.
+func rangeTableToRuneSlice(rangetable *unicode.RangeTable) []rune {
+	var rtv []rune
+	for _, r := range rangetable.R16 {
+		for c := r.Lo; c < r.Hi; c += r.Stride {
+			rtv = append(rtv, rune(c))
+		}
+	}
+	for _, r := range rangetable.R32 {
+		for c := r.Lo; c < r.Hi; c += r.Stride {
+			rtv = append(rtv, rune(c))
+		}
+	}
+	return rtv
+}
+
+// unicodeCharClassToRange converts the given unicode character class name into a list of characters in that class.
+// This class could also be a single letter eg. 'C'.
+func unicodeCharClassToRange(class string) ([]rune, error) {
+	if len(class) == 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("empty unicode character class")
+	}
+	if len(class) == 1 || len(class) == 2 {
+		if rangeTable, ok := unicode.Categories[class]; ok {
+			return rangeTableToRuneSlice(rangeTable), nil
+		} else {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid short unicode character class")
+		}
+	} else {
+		if rangeTable, ok := unicode.Scripts[class]; ok {
+			return rangeTableToRuneSlice(rangeTable), nil
+		} else {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid long unicode character class")
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 // Stores whether the case-insensitive flag has been enabled.
 var caseInsensitive bool
 
@@ -313,6 +355,25 @@ func shuntingYard(re string, flags ...ReFlag) ([]postfixNode, error) {
 				} else {
 					return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid hex value in expression")
 				}
+			} else if re_runes[i] == 'p' || re_runes[i] == 'P' { // Unicode character class (P is negated unicode charclass)
+				re_postfix = append(re_postfix, re_runes[i])
+				i++
+				if i >= len(re_runes) {
+					return nil, fmt.Errorf("error parsing unicode character class in expression")
+				}
+				if re_runes[i] == '{' { // Full name charclass
+					for re_runes[i] != '}' {
+						re_postfix = append(re_postfix, re_runes[i])
+						i++
+					}
+					re_postfix = append(re_postfix, re_runes[i])
+					i++
+				} else if isUnicodeCharClassLetter(re_runes[i]) {
+					re_postfix = append(re_postfix, re_runes[i])
+					i++
+				} else {
+					return nil, fmt.Errorf("error parsing unicode character class in expression")
+				}
 			} else if re_runes[i] == '0' { // Start of octal value
 				numDigits := 1
 				for i+numDigits < len(re_runes) && numDigits < 4 && isOctal(re_runes[i+numDigits]) { // Skip while we see an octal character (max of 4, starting with 0)