Fixes #13843.

An empty regex is a valid regex that always matches. This behavior
is consistent with at least Go and Python.

A couple regression tests are included.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libregex/parse/mod.rs b/src/libregex/parse/mod.rs
index bd2e454a9f8..14e34b805a3 100644
--- a/src/libregex/parse/mod.rs
+++ b/src/libregex/parse/mod.rs
@@ -201,6 +201,9 @@ pub fn parse(s: &str) -> Result<Ast, Error> {
 
 impl<'a> Parser<'a> {
     fn parse(&mut self) -> Result<Ast, Error> {
+        if self.chars.len() == 0 {
+            return Ok(Nothing);
+        }
         loop {
             let c = self.cur();
             match c {