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-rw-r--r--generic/tclRegexp.c15
-rw-r--r--tests/set-old.test7
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/generic/tclRegexp.c b/generic/tclRegexp.c
index ea25d4b..cfe6388 100644
--- a/generic/tclRegexp.c
+++ b/generic/tclRegexp.c
@@ -502,10 +502,17 @@ Tcl_RegExpMatchObj(
{
Tcl_RegExp re;
- re = Tcl_GetRegExpFromObj(interp, patternObj,
- TCL_REG_ADVANCED | TCL_REG_NOSUB);
- if (re == NULL) {
- return -1;
+ /*
+ * For performance reasons, first try compiling the RE without support for
+ * subexpressions. On failure, try again without TCL_REG_NOSUB in case the
+ * RE has backreferences in it. Closely related to [Bug 1366683]. If this
+ * still fails, an error message will be left in the interpreter.
+ */
+
+ if (!(re = Tcl_GetRegExpFromObj(interp, patternObj,
+ TCL_REG_ADVANCED | TCL_REG_NOSUB))
+ && !(re = Tcl_GetRegExpFromObj(interp, patternObj, TCL_REG_ADVANCED))) {
+ return -1;
}
return Tcl_RegExpExecObj(interp, re, textObj, 0 /* offset */,
0 /* nmatches */, 0 /* flags */);
diff --git a/tests/set-old.test b/tests/set-old.test
index 1c68f91..6138ed8 100644
--- a/tests/set-old.test
+++ b/tests/set-old.test
@@ -652,6 +652,13 @@ test set-old-8.52 {array command, array names -regexp on regexp pattern} {
set a(11) 1
list [catch {lsort [array names a -regexp ^1]} msg] $msg
} {0 {1*2 11 12}}
+test set-old-8.52.1 {array command, array names -regexp, backrefs} {
+ catch {unset a}
+ set a(1*2) 1
+ set a(12) 1
+ set a(11) 1
+ list [catch {lsort [array names a -regexp {^(.)\1}]} msg] $msg
+} {0 11}
test set-old-8.53 {array command, array names -regexp} {
catch {unset a}
set a(-glob) 1