I recently found that regex on multiplatfrom appea...
# multiplatformp
Patrick Jackson
04/21/2019, 12:52 AMI recently found that regex on multiplatfrom appears to be use the platforms regex engine, which can mean you will need different expressions for each platform. At least this is the case for JS, JVM, & iOS. Any plans to implement a common regex engine?
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Dominaezzz
04/21/2019, 9:07 AMDo you have any examples of this?
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gildor
04/21/2019, 9:18 AMK/N has own regex implementation that should be compatible with Java regex, if it’s not true better to create an issue
gildor
04/22/2019, 1:19 AMin general it’s valid concern, JS implementation may be not fully compatible, but I think it’s not so bad tradeoff, no need to bundle implementation to JVM and JS.
But it requires covering every regexp by common tests to be sure that it works properly in every platform
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Patrick Jackson
04/22/2019, 1:42 PMYes, an example is matching alphanumeric including unicode chars. In JVM this works "[^\p{Alnum}]" but fails on native and JS. If I have time I will put up a test project
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gildor
04/22/2019, 4:20 PMProbably make sense to report for K/N