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Capture group doesn't work for .+ or *

See original GitHub issue

Quick one since we’re all ready for the holidays! Happy to go into more detail when people are free.

Capture groups seem to capture everything BEFORE your target, if using .+ or *. Using OR (#Noun|#Verb)+ works fine.

Quick console example:

> nlp('John always ravenously eats his glue').match('john [.+] eats').tag('test').debug()
=====
  -----
  ｜ 'John'     - MaleName, FirstName, Person, ProperNoun, Singular, Noun, TitleCase, Test
  ｜ 'always'   - Adverb, Test
  ｜ 'ravenously'  - Adverb, Test
  ｜ 'eats'     - PresentTense, Verb, Test

> nlp('John always ravenously eats his glue').match('john [*] eats').tag('test').debug()
=====
  -----
  ｜ 'John'     - MaleName, FirstName, Person, ProperNoun, Singular, Noun, TitleCase, Test
  ｜ 'always'   - Adverb, Test
  ｜ 'ravenously'  - Adverb, Test
  ｜ 'eats'     - PresentTense, Verb, Test

> nlp('John always ravenously eats his glue').match('john [#Adverb+] eats').tag('test').debug()
=====
  -----
  ｜ 'always'   - Adverb, Test
  ｜ 'ravenously'  - Adverb, Test

> nlp('John always ravenously eats his glue').match('john [(#Noun|#Adverb)+] eats').tag('test').debug()
=====
  -----
  ｜ 'always'   - Adverb, Test
  ｜ 'ravenously'  - Adverb, Test

Last two examples are correct and expected behaviour of the first 2.

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Created 4 years ago
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spencermountaincommented, Jan 17, 2020

hey @Drache93 I just discovered the .export() format bungles any sentence with a contraction. It’s kind of bad. I should have caught this before now.

It’ll require a breaking change - the good news though, is that it’s an opportunity to change anything you’d like in this release - so free license to you. Take a crack at anything you want.

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Drache93commented, Jan 17, 2020

Will take another look at this next!