no-empty-character-class
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Disallows using the empty character class in a regular expression
Disallows using the empty character class in a regular expression
Regular expression character classes are a series of characters in brackets,
e.g. [abc]
. if nothing is supplied in the brackets it will not match anything
which is likely a typo or mistake.
Invalid:
/^abc[]/.test("abcdefg"); // false, as `d` does not match an empty character class
"abcdefg".match(/^abc[]/); // null
Valid:
// Without a character class
/^abc/.test("abcdefg"); // true
"abcdefg".match(/^abc/); // ["abc"]
// With a valid character class
/^abc[a-z]/.test("abcdefg"); // true
"abcdefg".match(/^abc[a-z]/); // ["abcd"]