Flight Log / dotnet/runtime #115743
Fix inconsistency in balancing group captures in regex — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight
The GitHub Copilot bot (GitHub) opened this pull request in dotnet/runtime on May 19, 2025; a burn — closed unmerged after human review: +103 −36, 4 files, 0 reviews.
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“Please fix the style issues causing build failures, and move the new test into an existing test file.”
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This PR addresses an inconsistency in how regex balancing groups are handled. When using balancing groups with `(?'g1-g2'exp)` syntax, there was a discrepancy between: 1. How a group was evaluated during conditional matching with `(?(g1)yes|no)` (would match "yes") 2. The reported capture data via …
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