Ripgrep Missing Character Class + Repetitions

Question

Why do these match:

echo 'CCAGCTACTCGGGAGGCTGAGGCTGGAGGATCGCTTGAGTCCAGGAGTTC' | grep -E 'CCAGCTACTCGGGAGGCTGAGGCTGGAGGATCGCTTGAGTCCAGGAG[ATCG]{2}C'
echo 'CCAGCTACTCGGGAGGCTGAGGCTGGAGGATCGCTTGAGTCCAGGAGTTC' | rg 'CCAGCTACTCGGGAGGCTGAGGCTGGAGGATCGCTTGAGTCCAGGAG[ATCG]{1,2}C'
echo 'CCAGCTACTCGGGAGGCTGAGGCTGGAGGATCGCTTGAGTCCAGGAGTTC' | rg 'CCAGCTACTCGGGAGGCTGAGGCTGGAGGATCGCTTGAGTCCAGGAG[ATCG]{2,}C'
echo 'CCAGCTACTCGGGAGGCTGAGGCTGGAGGATCGCTTGAGTCCAGGAGTTC' | awk '$0 ~ /CCAGCTACTCGGGAGGCTGAGGCTGGAGGATCGCTTGAGTCCAGGAG[ATCG]{2}C/'

But this does not:

echo 'CCAGCTACTCGGGAGGCTGAGGCTGGAGGATCGCTTGAGTCCAGGAGTTC' | rg 'CCAGCTACTCGGGAGGCTGAGGCTGGAGGATCGCTTGAGTCCAGGAG[ATCG]{2}C'

I was under the impression that ripgrep used rust regex engine, which should be able to handle the character class + repetition?

Yup, this is a bug. I filed an issue for you: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1319 — BurntSushi5, Jul 05 '19 at 17:14
Thanks guys! This was literally the first thing I tried with ripgrep, so I just assumed I was wrong and rg was right. — Stats4224, Jul 05 '19 at 17:52
It [looks to be fixed on Feb 17](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1319). — Ryszard Czech, Jul 03 '20 at 10:59
I’m voting to close this question because it identified a good bug in an implementation that has now been fixed. Others are not likely to run into this issue again. — Joe Hildebrand, Sep 02 '20 at 16:50

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 18 '20 at 14:58

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This is due to a bug (issue 1319) in ripgrep which was fixed in version 12.0.0.

answered Nov 18 '20 at 14:58

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