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authorEric Kidd <git@randomhacks.net>2014-12-13 13:33:18 -0500
committerEric Kidd <git@randomhacks.net>2014-12-14 08:56:51 -0500
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Modify `regex::Captures::{at,name}` to return `Option`
Closes #14602.  As discussed in that issue, the existing `at` and `name`
functions represent two different results with the empty string:

1. Matched the empty string.
2. Did not match anything.

Consider the following example.  This regex has two named matched
groups, `key` and `value`. `value` is optional:

```rust
// Matches "foo", "foo;v=bar" and "foo;v=".
regex!(r"(?P<key>[a-z]+)(;v=(?P<value>[a-z]*))?");
```

We can access `value` using `caps.name("value")`, but there's no way for
us to distinguish between the `"foo"` and `"foo;v="` cases.

Early this year, @BurntSushi recommended modifying the existing `at` and
`name` functions to return `Option`, instead of adding new functions to
the API.

This is a [breaking-change], but the fix is easy:

- `refs.at(1)` becomes `refs.at(1).unwrap_or("")`.
- `refs.name(name)` becomes `refs.name(name).unwrap_or("")`.
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