Add new regex natives.

[Drifter321]

Not sure how long this has been broken but currently MatchRegex doesn't actually return the number of matches. It instead returns 1 + the number of capture group matches. This simply fixes it to work how the docs currently say it should work. However, it is possible to add capture group support at some point but would require some effort along with new natives.

Some test outputs.

Matches 5
Match 0 is t
Match 1 is t
Match 2 is t
Match 3 is t
Match 4 is t

Matches 1
Match 0 is _

Matches 3
Match 0 is .
Match 1 is _
Match 2 is +

Matches 1
Match 0 is test

Test plugin

#pragma newdecls required
 
#include <sourcemod>
#include <regex>
 
public void OnPluginStart()
{
	Regex regex = CompileRegex("t", PCRE_UTF8);
	int filter = MatchRegex(regex, "test.string_doesnt+match");
	
	PrintToServer("Matches %i", filter)
	
	for(int i = 0; i < filter; i++)
	{
		char reply[100];
		
		GetRegexSubString(regex, i, reply, sizeof(reply));
		
		PrintToServer("Match %i is %s", i, reply);
	}
	
	Regex regex2 = CompileRegex("_", PCRE_UTF8);
	filter = MatchRegex(regex2, "test.string_doesnt+match");
	
	PrintToServer("\nMatches %i", filter)
	
	for(int i = 0; i < filter; i++)
	{
		char reply[100];
		
		GetRegexSubString(regex2, i, reply, sizeof(reply));
		
		PrintToServer("Match %i is %s", i, reply);
	}
	
	Regex regex3 = CompileRegex("[\\\\\\W|^_]", PCRE_UTF8);
	filter = MatchRegex(regex3, "test.string_doesnt+match");
	
	PrintToServer("\nMatches %i", filter)
	
	for(int i = 0; i < filter; i++)
	{
		char reply[100];
		
		GetRegexSubString(regex3, i, reply, sizeof(reply));
		
		PrintToServer("Match %i is %s", i, reply);
	}
	
	Regex regex4 = CompileRegex("tes(t)", PCRE_UTF8);
	filter = MatchRegex(regex4, "test.string_doesnt+match");
	
	PrintToServer("\nMatches %i", filter)
	
	for(int i = 0; i < filter; i++)
	{
		char reply[100];
		
		GetRegexSubString(regex4, i, reply, sizeof(reply));
		
		PrintToServer("Match %i is %s", i, reply);
	}
}

I'm not exactly sure if this is the best approach. But I am open to all feedback.

[KyleSanderson]

This is tough to change because a for loop would have to be fixed at the plugin level. Fundamentally, even at a base level you're absolutely correct this is wrong. But people using < length would have to be fixed to <=. I'm sure there are other cases, but this to me is technical debt that can't be changed at this point.

[asherkin]

My understanding is still that this is currently working exactly as expected and documented, the documentation just confuses people more familiar with modern regex implementations than Perl.

Global matching behaviour should be behind a new native, maybe MatchAll?

[Drifter321]

After additional discussion it appears it was working correctly and the documentation was leading to lots of confusion and various features lacking.

MatchRegex has been reverted to how it originally was, but will now also accept an additional param for offset (defaulting to 0). GetRegexSubString now also takes an additional param to identify the match (defaulting to 0) to get substrings for.

MatchAll has been added. MatchCount, MatchOffset (Offset in the test plugin since i decided to rename it after), CaptureCount have also been added to provide info when using MatchAll, or when trying to manually loop using MatchRegex.

Test Plugin
https://paste.ee/p/CdFjB

And output
https://paste.ee/p/r0i44

I tried my best to clarify the documentation, but its probably still not great...

[asherkin]

Functionality seems good, see inlines.

[asherkin]

This sizeof is incorrect, it needs to be the element count, not the byte size.

The PRCE documentation points this out about 100 times 😛

[asherkin]

Ditto.

[asherkin]

Let's double this, 10 captures seems limiting, we have the RAM.

[asherkin]

It looks like the documentation got deleted for SimpleRegexMatch?

[Drifter321]

Oops, good catch must have deleted it when i deleted the new natives from non-methodmap.