REGEX, setTimeout delay

[Łukasz997 117]

Good morning,

I've noticed that not all regular expressions work correctly in Fibaro HC3 - especially alternations (the | operator). Possibly other features are affected as well. Can anyone share more details about which regex elements are unsupported or behave differently (and why)?

I'd also like to ask about the maximum delay supported by setTimeout on the HC3 (not the Lite version). Is the delay limit 64-bit? I'm planning to trigger an action once a month, but the required millisecond delay exceeds the 32-bit integer limit, so I'm wondering if that's a problem.

Thanks in advance!

[jgab 2,647]

It's not Fibaro's fault - Lua has it's own limited version they call Lua pattern.

See discussion here

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setTimout has some weird limitation on 32bits, which is strange when HC3 Lua is 64bit. - see discussion here

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My fibaroExtra has a patched setTimeout that allows for 64 bits times...

[Łukasz997 117]

It's a pity with no regex alternate | in LUA - it helps much. I hope it's not easy to add.

But it  seems to be easy to fix setTimeout limitation to a ~25 days. Tis is my version which use, however, original setTimeout. 

It divide whole delay to defined parts of time (chunk_ms). Parameter <chunk_ms> is only for testing. When not passed - it's set to setTimeout maximum.

Returns a function used to cancel itself when necessary. So, there's no exact clearLongTimeout function. See example.

Practically eternal delay is allowed (2^53 − 1 ms = ~285 000 years, still not enough?)

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