Regex functions throw errors #440

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1. bryanjos commented on Dec 9, 2017

   

   bryanjos

   on Dec 9, 2017

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   This has to do with the :re module not being implemented yet. Issue #306 catalogs what erlang modules and functions need to be implemented
2. mrdziuban commented on Dec 11, 2017

   

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   Thanks for the info. I started implementing :re.run but got stuck trying to decipher the javascript representation of the regex object. The elixir code is:

   Regex.replace(~r/foo/i, "hello foo", "world")

   and the regex in run looks like this:

   function run(subject, regex, options) {
     console.log(regex)
     // => Tuple {values: Array(5), length: 5}
     console.log(regex.values)
     // => [Symbol(re_pattern), 0, 0, 0, "ERCPM�������������������f�o�������@�������������������������������	�f�o�ox�	�"]
   }

   Any idea how I can extract a meaningful value from that? Thanks in advance.
3. bryanjos commented on Dec 12, 2017

   

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   That's odd. Nothing off the top of my head. That must be the binary representation. It's possible the BitString JavaScript module may be able to make something out of it.