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Unrecognized expression for regex that ends with `/=\s+[0-6]/`

See original GitHub issue

Current behavior

I have a cy.contains() call with the following:

cy.contains(/[56]\s+-\s+[0-6]\s+=\s+[0-6]/);

And it fails with:

Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: :cy-contains('/[56]\s+-\s+[0-6]\s+='\s+[0-6']/'), [type='submit'][value~='/[56]\s+-\s+[0-6]\s+='\s+[0-6']/']

It looks like there are extra single quotes? I’m not sure. The minimal code that throws the same error is:

cy.contains(/=\s+[0-6]/);

Desired behavior

Should not throw Error “Syntax error, unrecognized expression”.

Test code to reproduce

https://github.com/asartalo/cypress-test-cy-contains-fail

Cypress Version

9.5.4

Other

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Issue Analytics

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Created a year ago
Comments:5 (1 by maintainers)

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davidmunechikacommented, Apr 18, 2022

Thanks for opening an issue! I was able to reproduce this issue and it does appear to be a bug in how we are handling RegEx. It also seemed to fail with cy.contains(/=[0-6]/);

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cypress-bot[bot]commented, May 23, 2022

Released in 9.7.0.

This comment thread has been locked. If you are still experiencing this issue after upgrading to Cypress v9.7.0, please open a new issue.

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