[cfe-dev] clang-tidy Negative Lookahead Support

[Richard via cfe-dev]

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In article <CANgHf=wWbzxTCCK91cP0hOVE-2zOiLRLgOODO-yekHBngCLuJw at mail.gmail.com>,
    Daniel Dilts via cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> writes:

> I asked about something similar to this a couple of months ago.  I believe
> that the response was that one of the supported compilers did not currently
> have std::regex.

If we can't move forward due to lack of std::regex support, I'd like
to see glob based filtering with positive and negative filtering like
we have for checks.

> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Samuel Baxter via cfe-dev <
> cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > [...]  It's nice to be able to pass the
> > negative lookahead regex:
> >
> > ^(?!.*ThirdPartyLibs.*).*$
> >
> > and filter out all third party headers when running clang-tidy.
> >     Other command line options (files, -checks, maybe others) accept glob
> > filters, which allow for negation, and this comes in handy.  I think we
> > should be consistent in allowing negation of some form in all filter
> > options. I can try to re-implement this with a glob filter if that's
> > preferable.

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