/** * @name Duplicate character in character class * @description If a character class in a regular expression contains the same character twice, this may * indicate a bug. * @kind problem * @problem.severity warning * @id js/regex/duplicate-in-character-class * @tags reliability * correctness * regular-expressions * @precision very-high */ import javascript /** * Holds if `cc` is the `i`th constant inside character class `recc` that matches the character `val`. * Indexing is 1-based. */ predicate constantInCharacterClass(RegExpCharacterClass recc, int i, RegExpConstant cc, string val) { cc = rank[i](RegExpConstant cc2, int j | cc2 = recc.getChild(j) and cc2.isCharacter() and cc2.getValue() = val | cc2 order by j ) } from RegExpCharacterClass recc, RegExpConstant first, RegExpConstant repeat, int rnk, string val where constantInCharacterClass(recc, 1, first, val) and constantInCharacterClass(recc, rnk, repeat, val) and rnk > 1 and recc.isPartOfRegExpLiteral() select first, "Character '" + first + "' is repeated $@ in the same character class.", repeat, "here"