\h and \H regex shorthand character classes are inverted

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@dinatih commented on May 23, 2018, 7:31 PM UTC:

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Description

\h and \H regex shorthand character classes are inverted

Steps to Reproduce

Expected behavior: [What you expect to happen]

• \h should match hexadecimal-digit character which matches [0-9a-fA-F]
• \H should match non-hexadecimal-digit character

Actual behavior: [What actually happens]

• \h matches non-hexadecimal-digit character
• \H matches hexadecimal-digit character which matches [0-9a-fA-F]

Reproduces how often: [What percentage of the time does it reproduce?]
Everytime

Versions

1.27.1

Additional Information

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kkos/oniguruma/master/doc/RE

This issue was moved by rsese from atom/atom/issues/17400.

[rsese]

Thanks for the report @dinatih:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kkos/oniguruma/master/doc/RE

Atom find and replace doesn't use Oniguruma e.g. see:

#571

I think \h and \H are character classes for horizontal whitespace?

Let me know if I'm misunderstanding anything.

[dinatih]

Oh, alright, thank you.

http://www.rexegg.com/regex-quickstart.html#whitespace