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Breaks Regular Expressions

See original GitHub issue

Examples of valid RegExp that gets broken:

// thinks it is a text opening:
/'/
/"/
/\`/

// thinks it is a single-line comment opening:
/\//

// thinks it is a multi-line comment opening:
/\/*/

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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sindresorhuscommented, Dec 26, 2015

@sibedge That’s not valid JSON even without the comment. You can’t use regex literals in JSON.

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sindresorhuscommented, Dec 26, 2015

No, that’s a JavaScript object literal.

JSON.parse('{name: "value"}')
//=> Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token n(…)

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