[Edbrowse-dev] regex criteria interpreted as literals

[Kevin Carhart <kevin@carhart.net>]

I was trying to dig into this problem where Sebastian from the commandline 
list was trying to read google groups with edbrowse.

There may be a few things going on with google groups, but one of them 
that I could isolate as a short example is that they make use of the 
inline regular expression style as follows:

<script type="text/javascript">
ua=/</g;va=/>/g;
</script>

And the routine fails because the expression criteria is taken as a 
literal, so the error is then "SyntaxError: unterminated regular 
expressionliteral"

I know this is very similar to the string contents interpreted 
as literals problems from months back, which is now fixed, right?  Maybe 
this one is harder 
to deal with because it isn't delimited by quotes?  It gets ambiguous to 
know what /</ means.
Or should this work?
Or is it slipping my mind and we talked about the regex syntax back when 
we talked about things like
document.writeln("<script language=JavaScript>document.writeln('Subject: 
');<" + "/script>");


Note, I made 
sure my tidy was up to date before trying this.  When I say:
tidy -v
I get
HTML Tidy for Linux version 5.1.33

Any idea what can be done here?
thanks
Kevin