Angular SyntaxError: SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: invalid group specifier name.

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Created Mar ’21

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My webapplication from recently started throwing a/m exception both in iphone and mac. It works everywhere else.
I do not have Mac and tried to debug the issue wih remove Debugger in Chrome through wire. However I was unable to see where the exception is thrown form. I tried to setup a global Error Hanlder, put try/catch in entry point, nothing helops. I asked someone with Mac to see it but he was not able to help either. If someone has experience developing Webapplications can you point the webbrowser at convoyat.com and give me a hint what;s going on. Ideally I would like to see the regex that causing this. Thanks.

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kaban OP

Mar ’21

Found it, among dozens of thousands of code there was this line: const re = /(?<=\()([^)]+)(?=\))/g;
It was not executed but apparently was being evaluatedbefore the main entry point got called, That's why no debugger could get to it.

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