Invalid regular expression on Safari iOS < 16.4

[sebamarynissen]

I've noticed that anchorme v3 doesn't work anymore on Safari iOS < 16.4. It throws an error

Invalid regular expression: invalid group specifier name

I've done some debugging and found that the reason is this line

exports.final = "(?<=\\b|_)((".concat(exports.email, ")|(").concat(exports.file, ")|(").concat(exports.url, "))(\\b)?");

in the file regex.js because Safari doesn't support positive lookaheads below version 16.4: https://caniuse.com/js-regexp-lookbehind

I'm not sure why this positive lookbehind was added, but I propose to do something like

try {
  exports.final = "(?<=\\b|_)((".concat(exports.email, ")|(").concat(exports.file, ")|(").concat(exports.url, "))(\\b)?");
} catch (e) {
  exports.final = "\\b((".concat(exports.email, ")|(").concat(exports.file, ")|(").concat(exports.url, "))(\\b)?");
}

to be fail-safe.

[graux]

we are having this problem in production now... very difficult to replicate.

[o-alexandrov]

Duplicate of #133

[tibormarias]

We had problems with this in a Laravel Mix + Vue app where in production several users (mostly iOS and maybe MacOS too) had blank page issues and we couldn't figure it out until we removed this package. We always thought it was some magic caching issue because only 2% of users had this issue.

[p29hieu]

Do we have any update for now?

[rhysburnie]

I auto posted this from patch-package wiithout seeing this issue. #143

Similar propsed fix as above however I dont see how that try would work without attempting an actual regexp construction
its working for our porposes

[alexcorvi]

Please check the latest version 3.0.7