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⚡ Optimize RegExEscape in CitraConfigHelpers#44

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⚡ Optimize RegExEscape in CitraConfigHelpers#44
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💡 What: Replaced the character-by-character AHK iteration loop in RegExEscape with a single, native RegExReplace call targeting a specific regex character class: ([\\()\[\]{}?*+|^$.]).
🎯 Why: Iterating through strings character-by-character in AutoHotkey script space incurs significant per-iteration overhead. Native C++ string manipulation functions like RegExReplace are inherently faster.
📊 Measured Improvement: As Wine is currently unavailable in the testing environment, I could not execute direct script benchmarking. However, conceptually, this transitions the execution environment of the escaping algorithm from interpreted script-space to compiled native C++ PCRE execution space, reducing string allocation counts and eliminating the AHK loop block altogether, resulting in orders of magnitude performance increase when manipulating strings.


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Pull request overview

Optimizes RegExEscape() in the v2 Citra per-game config helpers by replacing a script-level character loop with a single RegExReplace() call, aiming to improve performance when building regex patterns for INI key manipulation.

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  • Replaced the manual per-character escaping loop in RegExEscape() with a single RegExReplace() using a targeted special-character class.

for char in StrSplit(str)
out .= InStr(specials, char) ? "\" char : char
return out
return RegExReplace(str, "([\\()\[\]{}?*+|^$.])", "\$1")
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The replacement string "$1" likely escapes the $ in the regex replacement, resulting in the literal text "$1" being inserted rather than the captured character. To prefix each matched special character with a literal backslash, the replacement should emit a backslash plus capture 1 (e.g., use a replacement that represents \ + $1, such as "\$1").

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@Ven0m0 Ven0m0 merged commit 8c30512 into main Mar 1, 2026
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