tsion/reggie — Issue #2: "perl-style" misleading
Author: JAChapmanII
Created: 2012-02-11 14:08:46+00:00
State: open

Both your README and the in-channel help from reggie say "perl-style" regex. However, when attempting to reference previous patterns, it failed. I just discovered that you can supposedly use the alternate syntax \g for them, but I haven't gotten this to work properly yet. CodeBlock said it would be possible to patch it to support full perl-style regex, but that he didn't feel like it. This is either a petition to change the word perl to ruby, or to have the full perl-style implemented somehow.

Try this to replace palindromes:
s/^((.)((?1)|.|)\2)?$/This is a palindrome: \1/

The exact message reggie returns is:
Undefined group option: /^((.)((?1)|.|)\2)?$/

It is apparently aware of only the (?opton-option) syntax, and tries to turn on the '1' option.
I understand that this is not the intended purpose of reggie, but it might as well be accurate.