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1# regcomp.sym
2#
3# File has two sections, divided by a line of dashes '-'.
4#
5# Empty rows after #-comment are removed from input are ignored
6#
486ec47a 7# First section is for regops, second section is for regmatch-states
03363afd 8#
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9# Note that the order in this file is important.
10#
03363afd 11# Format for first section:
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12# NAME \s+ TYPE, arg-description [num-args] [flags] [longjump-len] ; DESCRIPTION
13# flag <S> means is REGNODE_SIMPLE; flag <V> means is REGNODE_VARIES
03363afd 14#
3dab1dad 15#
c476f425 16# run perl regen.pl after editing this file
570aa4f2 17# Also update perlredebguts.pod
3dab1dad 18
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20
381b57db 21#* Exit points
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23END END, no ; End of program.
24SUCCEED END, no ; Return from a subroutine, basically.
d09b2d29 25
381b57db 26#* Anchors:
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28BOL BOL, no ; Match "" at beginning of line.
29MBOL BOL, no ; Same, assuming multiline.
30SBOL BOL, no ; Same, assuming singleline.
31EOS EOL, no ; Match "" at end of string.
32EOL EOL, no ; Match "" at end of line.
33MEOL EOL, no ; Same, assuming multiline.
34SEOL EOL, no ; Same, assuming singleline.
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35# The regops that have varieties that vary depending on the character set regex
36# modifiers have to ordered thusly: /d, /l, /u, /a, /aa. This is because code
37# in regcomp.c uses the enum value of the modifier as an offset from the /d
38# version. The complements must come after the non-complements.
39# BOUND, ALNUM, SPACE, DIGIT, and their complements are affected, as well as
40# EXACTF.
1e355c70 41BOUND BOUND, no ; Match "" at any word boundary using native charset semantics for non-utf8
f2284805 42BOUNDL BOUND, no ; Match "" at any locale word boundary
1e355c70 43BOUNDU BOUND, no ; Match "" at any word boundary using Unicode semantics
0c6e81eb 44BOUNDA BOUND, no ; Match "" at any word boundary using ASCII semantics
693fefec 45# All NBOUND nodes are required by code in regexec.c to be greater than all BOUND ones
1e355c70 46NBOUND NBOUND, no ; Match "" at any word non-boundary using native charset semantics for non-utf8
f2284805 47NBOUNDL NBOUND, no ; Match "" at any locale word non-boundary
1e355c70 48NBOUNDU NBOUND, no ; Match "" at any word non-boundary using Unicode semantics
0c6e81eb 49NBOUNDA NBOUND, no ; Match "" at any word non-boundary using ASCII semantics
f8abb37e 50GPOS GPOS, no ; Matches where last m//g left off.
d09b2d29 51
381b57db 52#* [Special] alternatives:
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54REG_ANY REG_ANY, no 0 S ; Match any one character (except newline).
55SANY REG_ANY, no 0 S ; Match any one character.
56CANY REG_ANY, no 0 S ; Match any one byte.
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57ANYOF ANYOF, sv 0 S ; Match character in (or not in) this class, single char match only
58ANYOFV ANYOF, sv 0 V ; Match character in (or not in) this class, can match-multiple chars
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59
60# Order (within each group) of the below is important. See ordering comment
61# above. The PLACEHOLDERn ones are wasting a value. Right now, we have plenty
62# to spare, but these would be obvious candidates if ever we ran out of node
63# types in a U8.
fdf48794 64ALNUM ALNUM, no 0 S ; Match any alphanumeric character using native charset semantics for non-utf8
f9ef50a7 65ALNUML ALNUM, no 0 S ; Match any alphanumeric char in locale
fdf48794 66ALNUMU ALNUM, no 0 S ; Match any alphanumeric char using Unicode semantics
0c6e81eb 67ALNUMA ALNUM, no 0 S ; Match [A-Za-z_0-9]
fdf48794 68NALNUM NALNUM, no 0 S ; Match any non-alphanumeric character using native charset semantics for non-utf8
f9ef50a7 69NALNUML NALNUM, no 0 S ; Match any non-alphanumeric char in locale
fdf48794 70NALNUMU NALNUM, no 0 S ; Match any non-alphanumeric char using Unicode semantics
0c6e81eb 71NALNUMA NALNUM, no 0 S ; Match [^A-Za-z_0-9]
fdf48794 72SPACE SPACE, no 0 S ; Match any whitespace character using native charset semantics for non-utf8
f9ef50a7 73SPACEL SPACE, no 0 S ; Match any whitespace char in locale
fdf48794 74SPACEU SPACE, no 0 S ; Match any whitespace char using Unicode semantics
0c6e81eb 75SPACEA SPACE, no 0 S ; Match [ \t\n\f\r]
fdf48794 76NSPACE NSPACE, no 0 S ; Match any non-whitespace character using native charset semantics for non-utf8
f9ef50a7 77NSPACEL NSPACE, no 0 S ; Match any non-whitespace char in locale
fdf48794 78NSPACEU NSPACE, no 0 S ; Match any non-whitespace char using Unicode semantics
0c6e81eb 79NSPACEA NSPACE, no 0 S ; Match [^ \t\n\f\r]
fdf48794 80DIGIT DIGIT, no 0 S ; Match any numeric character using native charset semantics for non-utf8
28b5d7bf 81DIGITL DIGIT, no 0 S ; Match any numeric character in locale
693fefec 82PLACEHOLDER1 NOTHING, no ; placeholder for missing DIGITU
0c6e81eb 83DIGITA DIGIT, no 0 S ; Match [0-9]
fdf48794 84NDIGIT NDIGIT, no 0 S ; Match any non-numeric character using native charset semantics for non-utf8
28b5d7bf 85NDIGITL NDIGIT, no 0 S ; Match any non-numeric character in locale
693fefec 86PLACEHOLDER2 NOTHING, no ; placeholder for missing NDIGITU
0c6e81eb 87NDIGITA NDIGIT, no 0 S ; Match [^0-9]
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89POSIXD POSIXD, none 0 S ; currently unused except as a placeholder
90POSIXL POSIXD, none 0 S ; currently unused except as a placeholder
91POSIXU POSIXD, none 0 S ; currently unused except as a placeholder
92POSIXA POSIXD, none 0 S ; Some [[:class:]] under /a; the FLAGS field gives which one
93NPOSIXD POSIXD, none 0 S ; currently unused except as a placeholder
94NPOSIXL POSIXD, none 0 S ; currently unused except as a placeholder
95NPOSIXU POSIXD, none 0 S ; currently unused except as a placeholder
96NPOSIXA POSIXD, none 0 S ; complement of POSIXA, [[:^class:]]
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97# End of order is important (within groups)
98
2448cf39 99CLUMP CLUMP, no 0 V ; Match any extended grapheme cluster sequence
d09b2d29 100
381b57db 101#* Alternation
1de06328 102
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103# BRANCH The set of branches constituting a single choice are hooked
104# together with their "next" pointers, since precedence prevents
105# anything being concatenated to any individual branch. The
106# "next" pointer of the last BRANCH in a choice points to the
107# thing following the whole choice. This is also where the
108# final "next" pointer of each individual branch points; each
109# branch starts with the operand node of a BRANCH node.
d09b2d29 110#
f9ef50a7 111BRANCH BRANCH, node 0 V ; Match this alternative, or the next...
d09b2d29 112
381b57db 113#*Back pointer
1de06328 114
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115# BACK Normal "next" pointers all implicitly point forward; BACK
116# exists to make loop structures possible.
d09b2d29 117# not used
f9ef50a7 118BACK BACK, no 0 V ; Match "", "next" ptr points backward.
d09b2d29 119
fab2782b 120#*Literals - NOTE the relative ordering of these types is important do not change it
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f8abb37e 122EXACT EXACT, str ; Match this string (preceded by length).
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123EXACTF EXACT, str ; Match this non-UTF-8 string (not guaranteed to be folded) using /id rules (w/len).
124EXACTFL EXACT, str ; Match this string (not guaranteed to be folded) using /il rules (w/len).
3c760661 125EXACTFU EXACT, str ; Match this string (folded iff in UTF-8, length in folding doesn't change if not in UTF-8) using /iu rules (w/len).
8c1182fd 126EXACTFA EXACT, str ; Match this string (not guaranteed to be folded) using /iaa rules (w/len).
3c760661 127EXACTFU_SS EXACT, str ; Match this string (folded iff in UTF-8, length in folding may change even if not in UTF-8) using /iu rules (w/len).
80acc8be 128EXACTFU_TRICKYFOLD EXACT, str ; Match this folded UTF-8 string using /iu rules
d09b2d29 129
381b57db 130#*Do nothing types
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f8abb37e 132NOTHING NOTHING, no ; Match empty string.
d09b2d29 133# A variant of above which delimits a group, thus stops optimizations
f8abb37e 134TAIL NOTHING, no ; Match empty string. Can jump here from outside.
d09b2d29 135
381b57db 136#*Loops
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138# STAR,PLUS '?', and complex '*' and '+', are implemented as circular
139# BRANCH structures using BACK. Simple cases (one character
140# per match) are implemented with STAR and PLUS for speed
141# and to minimize recursive plunges.
d09b2d29 142#
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143STAR STAR, node 0 V ; Match this (simple) thing 0 or more times.
144PLUS PLUS, node 0 V ; Match this (simple) thing 1 or more times.
d09b2d29 145
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146CURLY CURLY, sv 2 V ; Match this simple thing {n,m} times.
147CURLYN CURLY, no 2 V ; Capture next-after-this simple thing
148CURLYM CURLY, no 2 V ; Capture this medium-complex thing {n,m} times.
149CURLYX CURLY, sv 2 V ; Match this complex thing {n,m} times.
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150
151# This terminator creates a loop structure for CURLYX
f9ef50a7 152WHILEM WHILEM, no 0 V ; Do curly processing and see if rest matches.
d09b2d29 153
381b57db 154#*Buffer related
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156# OPEN,CLOSE,GROUPP ...are numbered at compile time.
157OPEN OPEN, num 1 ; Mark this point in input as start of #n.
158CLOSE CLOSE, num 1 ; Analogous to OPEN.
d09b2d29 159
f9ef50a7 160REF REF, num 1 V ; Match some already matched string
2448cf39 161REFF REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, folded using native charset semantics for non-utf8
f9ef50a7 162REFFL REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, folded in loc.
781aab5c 163# N?REFF[AU] could have been implemented using the FLAGS field of the
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164# regnode, but by having a separate node type, we can use the existing switch
165# statement to avoid some tests
166REFFU REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, folded using unicode semantics for non-utf8
781aab5c 167REFFA REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, folded using unicode semantics for non-utf8, no mixing ASCII, non-ASCII
d09b2d29 168
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169#*Named references. Code in regcomp.c assumes that these all are after the numbered references
170NREF REF, no-sv 1 V ; Match some already matched string
171NREFF REF, no-sv 1 V ; Match already matched string, folded using native charset semantics for non-utf8
172NREFFL REF, no-sv 1 V ; Match already matched string, folded in loc.
173NREFFU REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, folded using unicode semantics for non-utf8
781aab5c 174NREFFA REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, folded using unicode semantics for non-utf8, no mixing ASCII, non-ASCII
1de06328 175
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176IFMATCH BRANCHJ, off 1 . 2 ; Succeeds if the following matches.
177UNLESSM BRANCHJ, off 1 . 2 ; Fails if the following matches.
178SUSPEND BRANCHJ, off 1 V 1 ; "Independent" sub-RE.
486ec47a 179IFTHEN BRANCHJ, off 1 V 1 ; Switch, should be preceded by switcher .
f8abb37e 180GROUPP GROUPP, num 1 ; Whether the group matched.
d09b2d29 181
381b57db 182#*Support for long RE
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184LONGJMP LONGJMP, off 1 . 1 ; Jump far away.
185BRANCHJ BRANCHJ, off 1 V 1 ; BRANCH with long offset.
d09b2d29 186
381b57db 187#*The heavy worker
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f8abb37e 189EVAL EVAL, evl 1 ; Execute some Perl code.
d09b2d29 190
381b57db 191#*Modifiers
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193MINMOD MINMOD, no ; Next operator is not greedy.
194LOGICAL LOGICAL, no ; Next opcode should set the flag only.
d09b2d29 195
381b57db 196# This is not used yet
f9ef50a7 197RENUM BRANCHJ, off 1 . 1 ; Group with independently numbered parens.
d09b2d29 198
381b57db 199#*Trie Related
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201# Behave the same as A|LIST|OF|WORDS would. The '..C' variants have
202# inline charclass data (ascii only), the 'C' store it in the structure.
486ec47a 203# NOTE: the relative order of the TRIE-like regops is significant
ce5e9471 204
7986cb47 205TRIE TRIE, trie 1 ; Match many EXACT(F[ALU]?)? at once. flags==type
f8abb37e 206TRIEC TRIE,trie charclass ; Same as TRIE, but with embedded charclass data
3dab1dad 207
1de06328 208# For start classes, contains an added fail table.
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209AHOCORASICK TRIE, trie 1 ; Aho Corasick stclass. flags==type
210AHOCORASICKC TRIE,trie charclass ; Same as AHOCORASICK, but with embedded charclass data
1de06328 211
381b57db 212#*Regex Subroutines
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213GOSUB GOSUB, num/ofs 2L ; recurse to paren arg1 at (signed) ofs arg2
214GOSTART GOSTART, no ; recurse to start of pattern
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381b57db 216#*Special conditionals
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217NGROUPP NGROUPP, no-sv 1 ; Whether the group matched.
218INSUBP INSUBP, num 1 ; Whether we are in a specific recurse.
219DEFINEP DEFINEP, none 1 ; Never execute directly.
0a4db386 220
486ec47a 221#*Backtracking Verbs
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222ENDLIKE ENDLIKE, none ; Used only for the type field of verbs
223OPFAIL ENDLIKE, none ; Same as (?!)
224ACCEPT ENDLIKE, parno 1 ; Accepts the current matched string.
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226
227#*Verbs With Arguments
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228VERB VERB, no-sv 1 ; Used only for the type field of verbs
229PRUNE VERB, no-sv 1 ; Pattern fails at this startpoint if no-backtracking through this
230MARKPOINT VERB, no-sv 1 ; Push the current location for rollback by cut.
231SKIP VERB, no-sv 1 ; On failure skip forward (to the mark) before retrying
232COMMIT VERB, no-sv 1 ; Pattern fails outright if backtracking through this
233CUTGROUP VERB, no-sv 1 ; On failure go to the next alternation in the group
e2e6a0f1 234
ee9b8eae 235#*Control what to keep in $&.
f8abb37e 236KEEPS KEEPS, no ; $& begins here.
ee9b8eae 237
e1d1eefb 238#*New charclass like patterns
f8abb37e 239LNBREAK LNBREAK, none ; generic newline pattern
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241# regcomp.c expects the node number of the complement to be one greater than
242# the non-complement
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243VERTWS VERTWS, none 0 S ; vertical whitespace (Perl 6)
244NVERTWS NVERTWS, none 0 S ; not vertical whitespace (Perl 6)
245HORIZWS HORIZWS, none 0 S ; horizontal whitespace (Perl 6)
246NHORIZWS NHORIZWS, none 0 S ; not horizontal whitespace (Perl 6)
e1d1eefb 247
381b57db 248# NEW STUFF SOMEWHERE ABOVE THIS LINE
1de06328 249
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250################################################################################
251
7f69552c 252#*SPECIAL REGOPS
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254# This is not really a node, but an optimized away piece of a "long" node.
255# To simplify debugging output, we mark it as if it were a node
f8abb37e 256OPTIMIZED NOTHING, off ; Placeholder for dump.
1de06328 257
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258# Special opcode with the property that no opcode in a compiled program
259# will ever be of this type. Thus it can be used as a flag value that
260# no other opcode has been seen. END is used similarly, in that an END
261# node cant be optimized. So END implies "unoptimizable" and PSEUDO mean
262# "not seen anything to optimize yet".
f8abb37e 263PSEUDO PSEUDO, off ; Pseudo opcode for internal use.
1de06328 264
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265-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
266# Format for second section:
267# REGOP \t typelist [ \t typelist] [# Comment]
268# typelist= namelist
269# = namelist:FAIL
270# = name:count
271
272# Anything below is a state
273#
274#
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275TRIE next:FAIL
276EVAL AB:FAIL
277CURLYX end:FAIL
278WHILEM A_pre,A_min,A_max,B_min,B_max:FAIL
279BRANCH next:FAIL
280CURLYM A,B:FAIL
281IFMATCH A:FAIL
282CURLY B_min_known,B_min,B_max:FAIL
283COMMIT next:FAIL
284MARKPOINT next:FAIL
285SKIP next:FAIL
286CUTGROUP next:FAIL
287KEEPS next:FAIL