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Empty branch in alternation

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Last modified: 03 December 2024

Reports empty branches in a RegExp alternation. An empty branch will only match the empty string, and in most cases that is not what is desired. This inspection will not report a single empty branch at the start or the end of an alternation.

Example:

After the quick-fix is applied:

New in 2017.2