This fixes "Error compiling regex: Look-behind assertion without
constant size" when using variable-length lookbehinds in search, such as
`(?<=^(?:\s{4})*)\s{4}`.
fancy-regex 0.17.0 adds support for variable-length lookbehinds using
regex-automata's DFA reverse search commit:
https://github.com/fancy-regex/fancy-regex/commit/b58fb31
Closes #50219
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Release Notes:
- Fixed the error message on compilation of regular expressions
containing variable length lookbehind assertions
Previously:
<img width="1582" height="1377" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3e275891-aef5-482e-87f0-c47b9eac3c2a"
/>
Now:
<img width="1323" height="1015" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8638cd08-fcd0-40f9-8749-32e6352e89b7"
/>
Thanks to @vorahardik7 for helping out with a test example and
@AmaanBilwar for suggesting a fix!
Signed-off-by: Pratik Karki <pratik@prertik.com>2 files changedLine totals unavailable