• James Blewitt (13/13) Mar 28 2012 I'm having a problem with regexes.
• simendsjo (22/34) Mar 28 2012 Sounds like a bug. The following works:
• Dmitry Olshansky (29/35) Mar 28 2012 Please include compilation errors in future, it helps folks to figure

"James Blewitt" <jim jblewitt.com> writes:

I'm having a problem with regexes.
The following code gives a compilation error.  If I comment out 
the regex outside of main and comment in the regex inside of main 
then it does compile.

I'm using DMD v2.058

Any ideas what is going on?

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import std.regex;

Regex!(char) testRegex = regex("\\b(A(Z)?|B(Z)?|C(Z)?)\\b", "i");

void main() {
//	Regex!(char) testRegex = regex("\\b(A(Z)?|B(Z)?|C(Z)?)\\b", 
"i");
}

simendsjo <simendsjo gmail.com> writes:

On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:40:21 +0200, James Blewitt <jim jblewitt.com> wrote:

 I'm having a problem with regexes.
 The following code gives a compilation error.  If I comment out the  
 regex outside of main and comment in the regex inside of main then it  
 does compile.

 I'm using DMD v2.058

 Any ideas what is going on?

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 import std.regex;

 Regex!(char) testRegex = regex("\\b(A(Z)?|B(Z)?|C(Z)?)\\b", "i");

 void main() {
 //	Regex!(char) testRegex = regex("\\b(A(Z)?|B(Z)?|C(Z)?)\\b", "i");
 }

Sounds like a bug. The following works:
import std.regex;

Regex!(char) testRegex = ctRegex!(r"\b[ABC]Z?\b", "i");

void main() {
     // matches
     assert(match(" A ", testRegex));
     assert(match(" B ", testRegex));
     assert(match(" C ", testRegex));
     assert(match(" AZ ", testRegex));
     assert(match(" BZ ", testRegex));
     assert(match(" CZ ", testRegex));
     // case insensitive
     assert(match(" a ", testRegex));
     assert(match(" az ", testRegex));
     // needs match at word boundary
     assert(!match("A", testRegex));
     // doesn't match other characters
     assert(!match(" D ", testRegex));
     assert(!match(" DZ ", testRegex));
     assert(!match(" DZ ", testRegex));
}

Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh gmail.com> writes:

On 28.03.2012 13:40, James Blewitt wrote:
 I'm having a problem with regexes.
 The following code gives a compilation error. If I comment out the regex
 outside of main and comment in the regex inside of main then it does
 compile.

Please include compilation errors in future, it helps folks to figure 
the cause even without compiling your code.

In this case I get:

C:\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos\std\regex.d(1220): Error: 
assert(cast(int)
his.ir[orStart].code() == 129) failed
C:\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos\std\regex.d(946):        called 
from here:
this.parseRegex()
C:\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos\std\regex.d(6522):        called 
from here
  parser.this(pattern,flags)
newww.d(4):        called from here: regex("\\b(A(Z)?|B(Z)?|C(Z)?)\\b","i")
Failed: "dmd" "-v" "-o-" "newww.d" "-I."

 I'm using DMD v2.058

 Any ideas what is going on?

It does look like a bug C-T parser, this one I'm aware of, but I have no 
cure for it yet.
Apparently global variables requires const initializers thus invoking 
CTFE to process regex(...).

Try something like this for a workaround:

Regex!(char) testRegex;

static this(){
	testRegex = regex("\\b(A(Z)?|B(Z)?|C(Z)?)\\b", "i");
//init all global
}

P.S. Note that you have raw literals in D, it is advised to use them for 
regex: `\b(A(Z)?|B(Z)?|C(Z)?)\b` or r"\b(A(Z)?|B(Z)?|C(Z)?)\b"

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky