Flight Log / tomhrr/cosh #180
Fix single quote escaping in regex patterns — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight
The GitHub Copilot bot (GitHub) opened this pull request in tomhrr/cosh on Jun 19, 2025; a burn — closed unmerged after human review: +11 −12, 4 files, 0 reviews.
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GitHub Copilot attempted a fix in tomhrr/cosh so single quotes can be escaped in regex patterns, where escaped forms failed with an invalid regex error. The change touches four files across three commits, with 11 additions and 12 deletions. It was closed unmerged after human review, which asked for regex_escaping_test to be fixed.
“Could you please try to fix the `regex_escaping_test` test?”
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This PR fixes the issue where single quotes could not be properly escaped in regex patterns, which was causing "unrecognized escape sequence" errors. ## Problem When trying to use escaped single quotes in regex patterns like `\'s`, the code would fail with: ``` 1:41: invalid regex: unrecognized es…
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- Jun 26, 2025closedtomhrr
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