I am creating a sublime text highlighting file. However, I am stuck with an error I don't fully understand. I have the following regex:
\x([0-9]|[A-F]|[a-f])([0-9]|[A-F]|[a-f])
When I try to load the file in sublime text, I get the error:
Error in regex: too short multibyte code string in regex \x([0-9]|[A-F]|[a-f])([0-9]|[A-F]|[a-f])
I have tried Googling to understand what this error means, the only thing I have come across that is relavent are the following links:
0. github issue of the rubinius project
Unfortunately, from those links i could only determine that that error likely caused by a character encoding [ from 1 & 2]. I now suspect that "\x" might be the problem as everything else in that regex is fine. How does one escape that character and all others like it, in particular, can a golang script be used to sanitize regexes to get rid of such problems?
It means that you forgot to escape the \ in \x.
Therefore, it's trying to parse a Unicode character escape of the form \x1234, and it didn't find enough numbers.