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regex does not handle quoted right bracket correctly within character set #18034

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$ rustc --version
rustc 0.13.0-nightly (1c3ddd297 2014-10-13 23:27:46 +0000)

Here is my test code:

#![feature(phase)]
#[phase(plugin)]
extern crate regex_macros;
extern crate regex;

fn main() {
    let re = regex!(r#"([AB])"#);
    println!("\n1 {}", re);
    for cap in re.captures_iter("AABBAB") {
        println!("0: {}, 1: {}", cap.at(0), cap.at(1));
    }

    let re = regex!(r#"([\x{5b}])"#);
    println!("\n2 {}", re);
    for cap in re.captures_iter("[[]][]") {
        println!("0: {}, 1: {}", cap.at(0), cap.at(1));
    }

    let re = regex!(r#"([\[])"#);
    println!("\n3 {}", re);
    for cap in re.captures_iter("[[]][]") {
        println!("0: {}, 1: {}", cap.at(0), cap.at(1));
    }

    let re = regex!(r#"([\x{5d}])"#);
    println!("\n4 {}", re);
    for cap in re.captures_iter("[[]][]") {
        println!("0: {}, 1: {}", cap.at(0), cap.at(1));
    }

    let re = regex!(r#"([\]])"#);
    println!("\n5 {}", re);
    for cap in re.captures_iter("[[]][]") {
        println!("0: {}, 1: {}", cap.at(0), cap.at(1));
    }

    let re = regex!(r#"([\x{5b}\x{5d}])"#);
    println!("\n6 {}", re);
    for cap in re.captures_iter("[[]][]") {
        println!("0: {}, 1: {}", cap.at(0), cap.at(1));
    }

    let re = regex!(r#"([\x{5d}\x{5b}])"#);
    println!("\n7 {}", re);
    for cap in re.captures_iter("[[]][]") {
        println!("0: {}, 1: {}", cap.at(0), cap.at(1));
    }

    let re = regex!(r#"([\[\]])"#);
    println!("\n8 {}", re);
    for cap in re.captures_iter("[[]][]") {
        println!("0: {}, 1: {}", cap.at(0), cap.at(1));
    }

    let re = regex!(r#"([\]\[])"#);
    println!("\n9 {}", re);
    for cap in re.captures_iter("[[]][]") {
        println!("0: {}, 1: {}", cap.at(0), cap.at(1));
    }

    let re = regex!(r#"\[|\]"#);
    println!("\n10 {}", re);
    for cap in re.captures_iter("[[]][]") {
        println!("0: {}, 1: {}", cap.at(0), cap.at(1));
    }
}

Results:

1 ([AB])
0: A, 1: A
0: A, 1: A
0: B, 1: B
0: B, 1: B
0: A, 1: A
0: B, 1: B

2 ([\x{5b}])
0: [, 1: [
0: [, 1: [
0: [, 1: [

3 ([\[])
0: [, 1: [
0: [, 1: [
0: [, 1: [

4 ([\x{5d}])
0: ], 1: ]
0: ], 1: ]
0: ], 1: ]

5 ([\]])
0: ], 1: ]
0: ], 1: ]
0: ], 1: ]

6 ([\x{5b}\x{5d}])
0: [], 1: []
0: [], 1: []

7 ([\x{5d}\x{5b}])
0: [], 1: []
0: [], 1: []

8 ([\[\]])
0: [], 1: []
0: [], 1: []

9 ([\]\[])
0: [], 1: []
0: [], 1: []

10 \[|\]
0: [, 1: 
0: [, 1: 
0: ], 1: 
0: ], 1: 
0: [, 1: 
0: ], 1: 

I expect case 6, 7, 8, and 9 to behave like 1 and 10. It looks like something about having both a left and right quoted bracket within a character set is causing the regex engine to treat the character set as
a literal "[]" that matches a single time (even though that sequence appears twice in the text).

The same behavior happens with Regex::new instead of regex! macro.

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