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noMisleadingCharacterClass

Diagnostic Category: lint/suspicious/noMisleadingCharacterClass

Since: v1.5.0

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Disallow characters made with multiple code points in character class syntax.

Unicode includes the characters which are made with multiple code points. e.g. Á, 🇯🇵, 👨‍👩‍👦. A RegExp character class /[abc]/ cannot handle characters with multiple code points. For example, the character ❇️ consists of two code points: (U+2747) and VARIATION SELECTOR-16 (U+FE0F). If this character is in a RegExp character class, it will match to either or VARIATION SELECTOR-16 rather than ❇️. This rule reports the regular expressions which include multiple code point characters in character class syntax.

/^[Á]$/u;
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Unexpected combined character in the character class.

> 1 │ /^[Á]$/u;
^^^^^^^^
2 │

/^[❇️]$/u;
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Unexpected combined character in the character class.

> 1 │ /^[❇️]$/u;
^^^^^^^^
2 │

/^[👶🏻]$/u;
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Unexpected modified Emoji in the character class.

> 1 │ /^[👶🏻]$/u;
^^^^^^^^^^^
2 │

/^[🇯🇵]$/u;
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Regional indicator symbol characters should not be used in the character class.

> 1 │ /^[🇯🇵]$/u;
^^^^^^^^^
2 │

/^[👨‍👩‍👦]$/u;
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Unexpected joined character sequence in character class.

> 1 │ /^[👨‍👩‍👦]$/u;
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2 │

/^[👍]$/; // surrogate pair without u flag
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Unexpected surrogate pair in character class. Use the ‘u’ flag.

> 1 │ /^[👍]$/; // surrogate pair without u flag
^^^^^^^^
2 │

Safe fix: Add unicode u flag to regex

1 │ /^[👍]$/u;·//·surrogate·pair·without·u·flag
+
/^[abc]$/;
/^[👍]$/u;
/^[\q{👶🏻}]$/v;