Strips HTML tags from code completion list #3877
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Identify the Bug or Feature request
Fixes #391
Description of the Change
The summary is stripped of HTML tags using a very coarse regular expression which should match a
<...>
sequence inside a short description. I intentionally left the regular expression simple, as we don't need a real HTML parser here, just something to strip the HTML tags away. We can complicate the expression as needed.The stripped strings are kept into an hashmap, which is then indexed by the unstripped string. We can't use a static approach, because additional macros or UDFs could be added, and require their own short description stripped.
Possible Drawbacks
The performance loss can be evaluated in terms of one hashmap look-up for each function each time we create the dialog, plus one string replacement for the first time we need to populate the cache. As the number of strings should be small (in the order of 1000) the loss should be small enough to be negligible.
Documentation Notes
N/A
Release Notes
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