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diff --git a/vendor/regex-automata/data/tests/fowler/README b/vendor/regex-automata/data/tests/fowler/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..55507f03f --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/regex-automata/data/tests/fowler/README @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Test data was taken from the Go distribution, which was in turn taken from the +testregex test suite: + + http://www2.research.att.com/~astopen/testregex/testregex.html + +Unfortunately, the above link is now dead, but the test data lives on. + +The LICENSE in this directory corresponds to the LICENSE that the data was +originally released under. + +The tests themselves were modified for RE2/Go. A couple were modified further +by me (Andrew Gallant) (only in repetition.dat) so that RE2/Go would pass them. +(Yes, it seems like RE2/Go includes failing test cases.) This may or may not +have been a bad idea, but I think being consistent with an established Regex +library is worth something. + +After some number of years, these tests were transformed into a JSON format +using the fowler-to-json script in this directory, e.g., + + ./fowler-to-json basic.dat > basic.json + +which brings them into a sensible structured format in which other tests can +be written. |