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1# regcomp.sym
2#
3# File has two sections, divided by a line of dashes '-'.
4#
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5# Lines beginning with # are ignored, except for those that start with #*
6# which are included in pod/perldebguts.pod. # within a line may be part
7# of a description.
03363afd 8#
486ec47a 9# First section is for regops, second section is for regmatch-states
03363afd 10#
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11# Note that the order in this file is important.
12#
03363afd 13# Format for first section:
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14# NAME \s+ TYPE, arg-description [struct regnode suffix] [flags] [longjump] ; DESCRIPTION
15# arg-description is currently unused
16# suffix is appended to 'struct_regnode_' giving which one to use. If empty,
17# it means plain 'struct regnode'. If the regnode is a string one, this
18# should instead refer to the base regnode, without the char[1] element
19# of the structure
46167d76 20# flag <S> means is REGNODE_SIMPLE; flag <V> means is REGNODE_VARIES; <.> is
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21# a placeholder
22# longjump is 1 if the (first) argument holds the next offset (instead of the
23# usual 'next_offset' field
3dab1dad 24#
c476f425 25# run perl regen.pl after editing this file
3dab1dad 26
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27# +- suffix of which struct regnode to use e.g.,
28# | +- flags (S or V) struct regnode_1
29# un- | | +- longjmp (0, blank, or 1) blank means 0
30# Name Type used | | | ; comment
31# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
32# IFMATCH BRANCHJ, off 1 . 1 ; Succeeds if the following matches.
33# UNLESSM BRANCHJ, off 1 . 1 ; Fails if the following matches.
34# SUSPEND BRANCHJ, off 1 V 1 ; "Independent" sub-RE.
35# IFTHEN BRANCHJ, off 1 V 1 ; Switch, should be preceded by switcher.
36# GROUPP GROUPP, num 1 ; Whether the group matched.
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38
381b57db 39#* Exit points
1de06328 40
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41END END, no ; End of program.
42SUCCEED END, no ; Return from a subroutine, basically.
d09b2d29 43
d3d47aac 44#* Line Start Anchors:
1645b83c 45#Note flags field for SBOL indicates if it is a /^/ or a /\A/
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46SBOL BOL, no ; Match "" at beginning of line: /^/, /\A/
47MBOL BOL, no ; Same, assuming multiline: /^/m
48
49#* Line End Anchors:
50SEOL EOL, no ; Match "" at end of line: /$/
51MEOL EOL, no ; Same, assuming multiline: /$/m
52EOS EOL, no ; Match "" at end of string: /\z/
53
54#* Match Start Anchors:
55GPOS GPOS, no ; Matches where last m//g left off.
56
57#* Word Boundary Opcodes:
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58# The regops that have varieties that vary depending on the character set regex
59# modifiers have to ordered thusly: /d, /l, /u, /a, /aa. This is because code
60# in regcomp.c uses the enum value of the modifier as an offset from the /d
61# version. The complements must come after the non-complements.
3018b823 62# BOUND, POSIX and their complements are affected, as well as EXACTF.
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63BOUND BOUND, no ; Like BOUNDA for non-utf8, otherwise match "" between any Unicode \w\W or \W\w
64BOUNDL BOUND, no ; Like BOUND/BOUNDU, but \w and \W are defined by current locale
912b808c 65BOUNDU BOUND, no ; Match "" at any boundary of a given type using /u rules.
c440a570 66BOUNDA BOUND, no ; Match "" at any boundary between \w\W or \W\w, where \w is [_a-zA-Z0-9]
693fefec 67# All NBOUND nodes are required by code in regexec.c to be greater than all BOUND ones
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68NBOUND NBOUND, no ; Like NBOUNDA for non-utf8, otherwise match "" between any Unicode \w\w or \W\W
69NBOUNDL NBOUND, no ; Like NBOUND/NBOUNDU, but \w and \W are defined by current locale
912b808c 70NBOUNDU NBOUND, no ; Match "" at any non-boundary of a given type using using /u rules.
c440a570 71NBOUNDA NBOUND, no ; Match "" betweeen any \w\w or \W\W, where \w is [_a-zA-Z0-9]
d09b2d29 72
381b57db 73#* [Special] alternatives:
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74REG_ANY REG_ANY, no 0 S ; Match any one character (except newline).
75SANY REG_ANY, no 0 S ; Match any one character.
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76ANYOF ANYOF, sv charclass S ; Match character in (or not in) this class, single char match only
77ANYOFD ANYOF, sv charclass S ; Like ANYOF, but /d is in effect
78ANYOFL ANYOF, sv charclass S ; Like ANYOF, but /l is in effect
79ANYOFPOSIXL ANYOF, sv charclass_posixl S ; Like ANYOFL, but matches [[:posix:]] classes
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80
81# Must be sequential
29a889ef 82ANYOFH ANYOF, sv 1 S ; Like ANYOF, but only has "High" matches, none in the bitmap; the flags field contains the lowest matchable UTF-8 start byte
a5bc0742 83ANYOFHb ANYOF, sv 1 S ; Like ANYOFH, but all matches share the same UTF-8 start byte, given in the flags field
3146c00a 84ANYOFHr ANYOF, sv 1 S ; Like ANYOFH, but the flags field contains packed bounds for all matchable UTF-8 start bytes.
f6eaa562 85
67a1b5f9 86ANYOFM ANYOFM byte 1 S ; Like ANYOF, but matches an invariant byte as determined by the mask and arg
3db0bccc 87NANYOFM ANYOFM byte 1 S ; complement of ANYOFM
693fefec 88
d3d47aac 89#* POSIX Character Classes:
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90# Order of the below is important. See ordering comment above.
91POSIXD POSIXD, none 0 S ; Some [[:class:]] under /d; the FLAGS field gives which one
92POSIXL POSIXD, none 0 S ; Some [[:class:]] under /l; the FLAGS field gives which one
93POSIXU POSIXD, none 0 S ; Some [[:class:]] under /u; the FLAGS field gives which one
3615ea58 94POSIXA POSIXD, none 0 S ; Some [[:class:]] under /a; the FLAGS field gives which one
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95NPOSIXD NPOSIXD, none 0 S ; complement of POSIXD, [[:^class:]]
96NPOSIXL NPOSIXD, none 0 S ; complement of POSIXL, [[:^class:]]
97NPOSIXU NPOSIXD, none 0 S ; complement of POSIXU, [[:^class:]]
9e84774b 98NPOSIXA NPOSIXD, none 0 S ; complement of POSIXA, [[:^class:]]
3018b823 99# End of order is important
693fefec 100
2448cf39 101CLUMP CLUMP, no 0 V ; Match any extended grapheme cluster sequence
d09b2d29 102
381b57db 103#* Alternation
1de06328 104
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105#* BRANCH The set of branches constituting a single choice are
106#* hooked together with their "next" pointers, since
107#* precedence prevents anything being concatenated to
108#* any individual branch. The "next" pointer of the last
109#* BRANCH in a choice points to the thing following the
110#* whole choice. This is also where the final "next"
111#* pointer of each individual branch points; each branch
112#* starts with the operand node of a BRANCH node.
113#*
f9ef50a7 114BRANCH BRANCH, node 0 V ; Match this alternative, or the next...
d09b2d29 115
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116#*Literals
117# NOTE: the relative ordering of these types is important do not change it
1de06328 118
3ace85ea 119EXACT EXACT, str ; Match this string (flags field is the length).
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120
121#* In a long string node, the U32 argument is the length, and is
122#* immediately followed by the string.
123LEXACT EXACT, len:str 1; Match this long string (preceded by length; flags unused).
b24abbc8 124EXACTL EXACT, str ; Like EXACT, but /l is in effect (used so locale-related warnings can be checked for).
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125EXACTF EXACT, str ; Like EXACT, but match using /id rules; (string not UTF-8, not guaranteed to be folded).
126EXACTFL EXACT, str ; Like EXACT, but match using /il rules; (string not likely to be folded).
127EXACTFU EXACT, str ; Like EXACT, but match using /iu rules; (string folded).
128EXACTFAA EXACT, str ; Like EXACT, but match using /iaa rules; (string folded iff pattern is UTF8; folded length <= unfolded).
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129
130# End of important relative ordering.
131
a2f213ef 132EXACTFUP EXACT, str ; Like EXACT, but match using /iu rules; (string not UTF-8, not guaranteed to be folded; and it is Problematic).
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133# In order for a non-UTF-8 EXACTFAA to think the pattern is pre-folded when
134# matching a UTF-8 target string, there would have to be something like an
135# EXACTFAA_MICRO which would not be considered pre-folded for UTF-8 targets,
136# since the fold of the MICRO SIGN would not be done, and would be
137# representable in the UTF-8 target string.
138
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139EXACTFLU8 EXACT, str ; Like EXACTFU, but use /il, UTF-8, (string is folded, and everything in it is above 255.
140EXACTFAA_NO_TRIE EXACT, str ; Like EXACT, but match using /iaa rules (string not UTF-8, not guaranteed to be folded, not currently trie-able).
d09b2d29 141
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142
143EXACT_ONLY8 EXACT, str ; Like EXACT, but only UTF-8 encoded targets can match
5cd61b66 144LEXACT_ONLY8 EXACT, len:str 1 ; Like LEXACT, but only UTF-8 encoded targets can match
4f4c2c24 145EXACTFU_ONLY8 EXACT, str ; Like EXACTFU, but only UTF-8 encoded targets can match
efec1f81 146# One could add EXACTFAA8 and something that has the same effect for /l,
a9f8c7ac 147# but these would be extremely uncommon
f6b4b99d 148
95fb0a6e 149EXACTFU_S_EDGE EXACT, str ; /di rules, but nothing in it precludes /ui, except begins and/or ends with [Ss]; (string not UTF-8; compile-time only).
8a100c91 150
381b57db 151#*Do nothing types
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f8abb37e 153NOTHING NOTHING, no ; Match empty string.
65aa4ca7 154#*A variant of above which delimits a group, thus stops optimizations
f8abb37e 155TAIL NOTHING, no ; Match empty string. Can jump here from outside.
d09b2d29 156
381b57db 157#*Loops
1de06328 158
65aa4ca7 159#* STAR,PLUS '?', and complex '*' and '+', are implemented as
62e6ef33 160#* circular BRANCH structures. Simple cases
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161#* (one character per match) are implemented with STAR
162#* and PLUS for speed and to minimize recursive plunges.
163#*
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164STAR STAR, node 0 V ; Match this (simple) thing 0 or more times.
165PLUS PLUS, node 0 V ; Match this (simple) thing 1 or more times.
d09b2d29 166
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167CURLY CURLY, sv 2 V ; Match this simple thing {n,m} times.
168CURLYN CURLY, no 2 V ; Capture next-after-this simple thing
169CURLYM CURLY, no 2 V ; Capture this medium-complex thing {n,m} times.
170CURLYX CURLY, sv 2 V ; Match this complex thing {n,m} times.
d09b2d29 171
65aa4ca7 172#*This terminator creates a loop structure for CURLYX
f9ef50a7 173WHILEM WHILEM, no 0 V ; Do curly processing and see if rest matches.
d09b2d29 174
381b57db 175#*Buffer related
1de06328 176
65aa4ca7 177#*OPEN,CLOSE,GROUPP ...are numbered at compile time.
f8abb37e 178OPEN OPEN, num 1 ; Mark this point in input as start of #n.
48e88d42 179CLOSE CLOSE, num 1 ; Close corresponding OPEN of #n.
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180SROPEN SROPEN, none ; Same as OPEN, but for script run
181SRCLOSE SRCLOSE, none ; Close preceding SROPEN
d09b2d29 182
f9ef50a7 183REF REF, num 1 V ; Match some already matched string
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184REFF REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, using /di rules.
185REFFL REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, using /li rules.
781aab5c 186# N?REFF[AU] could have been implemented using the FLAGS field of the
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187# regnode, but by having a separate node type, we can use the existing switch
188# statement to avoid some tests
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189REFFU REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, usng /ui.
190REFFA REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, using /aai rules.
d09b2d29 191
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192#*Named references. Code in regcomp.c assumes that these all are after
193#*the numbered references
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194REFN REF, no-sv 1 V ; Match some already matched string
195REFFN REF, no-sv 1 V ; Match already matched string, using /di rules.
196REFFLN REF, no-sv 1 V ; Match already matched string, using /li rules.
197REFFUN REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, using /ui rules.
198REFFAN REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, using /aai rules.
1de06328 199
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200#*Support for long RE
201LONGJMP LONGJMP, off 1 . 1 ; Jump far away.
202BRANCHJ BRANCHJ, off 1 V 1 ; BRANCH with long offset.
203
204#*Special Case Regops
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205IFMATCH BRANCHJ, off 1 . 1 ; Succeeds if the following matches; non-zero flags "f", next_off "o" means lookbehind assertion starting "f..(f-o)" characters before current
206UNLESSM BRANCHJ, off 1 . 1 ; Fails if the following matches; non-zero flags "f", next_off "o" means lookbehind assertion starting "f..(f-o)" characters before current
f9ef50a7 207SUSPEND BRANCHJ, off 1 V 1 ; "Independent" sub-RE.
65aa4ca7 208IFTHEN BRANCHJ, off 1 V 1 ; Switch, should be preceded by switcher.
f8abb37e 209GROUPP GROUPP, num 1 ; Whether the group matched.
d09b2d29 210
d09b2d29 211
381b57db 212#*The heavy worker
1de06328 213
13f27704 214EVAL EVAL, evl/flags 2L ; Execute some Perl code.
d09b2d29 215
381b57db 216#*Modifiers
1de06328 217
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218MINMOD MINMOD, no ; Next operator is not greedy.
219LOGICAL LOGICAL, no ; Next opcode should set the flag only.
d09b2d29 220
65aa4ca7 221#*This is not used yet
f9ef50a7 222RENUM BRANCHJ, off 1 . 1 ; Group with independently numbered parens.
d09b2d29 223
381b57db 224#*Trie Related
1de06328 225
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226#* Behave the same as A|LIST|OF|WORDS would. The '..C' variants
227#* have inline charclass data (ascii only), the 'C' store it in the
228#* structure.
486ec47a 229# NOTE: the relative order of the TRIE-like regops is significant
ce5e9471 230
7986cb47 231TRIE TRIE, trie 1 ; Match many EXACT(F[ALU]?)? at once. flags==type
f8abb37e 232TRIEC TRIE,trie charclass ; Same as TRIE, but with embedded charclass data
3dab1dad 233
1de06328 234# For start classes, contains an added fail table.
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235AHOCORASICK TRIE, trie 1 ; Aho Corasick stclass. flags==type
236AHOCORASICKC TRIE,trie charclass ; Same as AHOCORASICK, but with embedded charclass data
1de06328 237
381b57db 238#*Regex Subroutines
f8abb37e 239GOSUB GOSUB, num/ofs 2L ; recurse to paren arg1 at (signed) ofs arg2
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381b57db 241#*Special conditionals
016b7209 242GROUPPN GROUPPN, no-sv 1 ; Whether the group matched.
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243INSUBP INSUBP, num 1 ; Whether we are in a specific recurse.
244DEFINEP DEFINEP, none 1 ; Never execute directly.
0a4db386 245
486ec47a 246#*Backtracking Verbs
f8abb37e 247ENDLIKE ENDLIKE, none ; Used only for the type field of verbs
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248OPFAIL ENDLIKE, no-sv 1 ; Same as (?!), but with verb arg
249ACCEPT ENDLIKE, no-sv/num 2L ; Accepts the current matched string, with verbar
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250
251#*Verbs With Arguments
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252VERB VERB, no-sv 1 ; Used only for the type field of verbs
253PRUNE VERB, no-sv 1 ; Pattern fails at this startpoint if no-backtracking through this
254MARKPOINT VERB, no-sv 1 ; Push the current location for rollback by cut.
255SKIP VERB, no-sv 1 ; On failure skip forward (to the mark) before retrying
256COMMIT VERB, no-sv 1 ; Pattern fails outright if backtracking through this
257CUTGROUP VERB, no-sv 1 ; On failure go to the next alternation in the group
e2e6a0f1 258
ee9b8eae 259#*Control what to keep in $&.
f8abb37e 260KEEPS KEEPS, no ; $& begins here.
ee9b8eae 261
e1d1eefb 262#*New charclass like patterns
f8abb37e 263LNBREAK LNBREAK, none ; generic newline pattern
3172e3fd 264
381b57db 265# NEW STUFF SOMEWHERE ABOVE THIS LINE
1de06328 266
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267################################################################################
268
7f69552c 269#*SPECIAL REGOPS
1de06328 270
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271#* This is not really a node, but an optimized away piece of a "long"
272#* node. To simplify debugging output, we mark it as if it were a node
f8abb37e 273OPTIMIZED NOTHING, off ; Placeholder for dump.
1de06328 274
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275#* Special opcode with the property that no opcode in a compiled program
276#* will ever be of this type. Thus it can be used as a flag value that
277#* no other opcode has been seen. END is used similarly, in that an END
278#* node cant be optimized. So END implies "unoptimizable" and PSEUDO
279#* mean "not seen anything to optimize yet".
f8abb37e 280PSEUDO PSEUDO, off ; Pseudo opcode for internal use.
1de06328 281
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282-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
283# Format for second section:
65aa4ca7 284# REGOP \t typelist [ \t typelist]
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285# typelist= namelist
286# = namelist:FAIL
287# = name:count
288
289# Anything below is a state
290#
291#
f8abb37e 292TRIE next:FAIL
4ee16520 293EVAL B,postponed_AB:FAIL
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294CURLYX end:FAIL
295WHILEM A_pre,A_min,A_max,B_min,B_max:FAIL
296BRANCH next:FAIL
297CURLYM A,B:FAIL
298IFMATCH A:FAIL
21cbe009 299CURLY B_min,B_max:FAIL
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300COMMIT next:FAIL
301MARKPOINT next:FAIL
302SKIP next:FAIL
303CUTGROUP next:FAIL
304KEEPS next:FAIL