Converting empty List to regex
dloscutoff opened this issue · 0 comments
dloscutoff commented
Currently, X[]
gives `(?:)`
, which matches the empty string. However, since X
with a List argument is supposed to generate a regex that matches any of the elements of the list, would it make more sense for X[]
to generate a regex that doesn't match anything? One example where it would make a difference is XlNa
, which counts the number of regex matches for elements of l
in a
. If l
is empty, it would seem that the answer should be 0
, but currently the result is equal to #a+1
.