TODO: * Need to go through everything and square it with RightToLeft matching. The support for this was built into an early version, and lots of things built afterwards are not savvy about bi-directional matching. Things that spring to mind: Regex match methods should start at 0 or text.Length depending on direction. Do split and replace need changes? Match should be aware of its direction (already applied some of this to NextMatch logic). The interpreter needs to check left and right bounds. Anchoring and substring discovery need to be reworked. RTL matches are going to have anchors on the right - ie $, \Z and \z. This should be added to the anchor logic. QuickSearch needs to work in reverse. There may be other stuff.... work through the code. * Add ECMAScript support to the parser. For example, [.\w\s\d] map to ECMA categories instead of canonical ones [DONE]. There's different behaviour on backreference/octal disambiguation. Find out what the runtime behavioural difference is for cyclic backreferences eg (?(1)abc\1) - this is only briefly mentioned in the spec. I couldn't find much on this in the ECMAScript specification either. * Octal/backreference parsing needs a big fix. The rules are ridiculously complex. * Improve the perl test suite. Run under MS runtime to generate checksums for each trial. Checksums should incorporate: all captures (index, length) for all groups; names of explicit capturing groups, and the numbers they map to. Any other state? RegexTrial.Execute() will then compare result and checksum. * The pattern (?(1?)a|b). It should fail: Perl fails, the MS implementation fails, but I pass. The documentation says that the construct (?(X)...) can be processed in two ways. If X is a valid group number, or a valid group name, then the expression becomes a capture conditional - the (...) part is executed only if X has been captured. If X is not a group number or name, then it is treated as a positive lookahead., and (...) is only executed if the lookahead succeeds. My code does the latter, but on further investigation it appears that both Perl and MS fail to recognize an expression assertion if the first character of the assertion is a number - which instead suggests a capture conditional. The exception raised is something like "invalid group number". I get the feeling the my behaviour seems more correct, but it's not consistent with the other implementations, so it should probably be changed.