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Escaped quotes test regex broken

See original GitHub issue

On the current staging, two challenges (“Escaping Literal Quotes in Strings” and “Quoting Strings with Single Quotes”) do not pass all tests with standard solution code.

Namely, tests asserting regex match lengths for non-escaped double quotes are failing: code.match(/[^\\\\]\"/g).length === 2 in the former challenge and code.match(/\"/g).length === 4 in the latter.

(Note: each of these is only one half of their respective test, and it might be beneficial in this case to split each test into two parts so users know where to look for their mistake instead of counting every quotation mark, as well as speeding up debugging if something breaks the regex again later on.)

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Created 7 years ago
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leontrantercommented, Nov 14, 2016

I’m stuck on the Quoting Strings with Single Quotes challenge. I’m 100% certain I’ve got the right answer in but it’s failing two tests (remove all the backslashes, you should have two single quotes and four double quotes). Very frustrating, can’t get past this problem 😦

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dhcodescommented, Aug 2, 2017

Tested on Chrome and Firefox after new updates. Both are working. Closing this issue unless it crops up again.

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