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[stanislaw]

Hello,

This is a contribution from @mettta and @stanislaw that addresses the issue https://github.com/textX/textX/issues/397.

We are not sure if patching StrMatch's _exp_str method is the right way to do it, so using this patch to open a discussion.

When the implementation path is confirmed, we are happy to address the remaining contributor checklist's action points.

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Code review checklist

• [x] Pull request represents a single change (i.e. not fixing disparate/unrelated things in a single PR)
• [x] Title summarizes what is changing
• [x] Commit messages are meaningful (see this for details)
• [x] Tests have been included and/or updated
• [ ] Docstrings have been included and/or updated, as appropriate
• [ ] Standalone docs have been updated accordingly
• [ ] Changelog(s) has/have been updated, as needed (see CHANGELOG.md, no need to update for typo fixes and such).

[igordejanovic]

Thanks @mettta and @stanislaw for the contribution.

The fix using _exp_str didn't handle two cases: a case with regexes, and a case when the match is the root rule. I added two additional test cases and changed the fix to use eval_attrs in NoMatch.

See this branch. I will merge this to master shortly.

[igordejanovic]

Resolved conflicts and merged to master.

[stanislaw]

Hi @igordejanovic, is there a chance for this small but very useful change to be released already? Thanks.

[igordejanovic]

Hi @stanislaw . Sure. I'll do the release in the following days.

[igordejanovic]

@stanislaw I've just released 2.0.1 with this fix only.

[stanislaw]

Thank you. I will check how it works with my project.