identifier with regex character is not properly matched #242
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Provides a test for and the solution to GitHub issue alstr#242. Namely, an identifier which contains regex characters (e.g. "[TODO]") is properly handled by having the parser look for literal "[" and "]" characters rather than treating those characters as part of a regex pattern. The word boundary regex pattern '\b' does NOT properly handle this, so a slightly different pattern is used to identify the boundary.
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If the identifier contains regex characters, the issue is not properly created. For example, using identifier
[TODO]with a comment like[TODO]: implement the widgetcauses problems. In version v5.1.1 (and earlier), this leads to an issue not being created. In v5.1.2, this leads to an issue with title]: implement the widgetbeing created.In v5.1.1, this is due to the parser not escaping the identifier when performing the regex search for the identifier and title. In V5.1.2, it's due to the word boundary marker
\bnot properly handling[and]characters. The general solution going forward needs to be that\bis used to find the identifier word boundaryThe text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: