=head1 DESCRIPTION
-As of Perl 5.9.5 there is a new interface for using other regexp
-engines than the default one. Each engine is supposed to provide
-access to a constant structure of the following format:
+As of Perl 5.9.5 there is a new interface for plugging and using other
+regular expression engines than the default one.
+
+Each engine is supposed to provide access to a constant structure of the
+following format:
typedef struct regexp_engine {
REGEXP* (*comp) (pTHX_ const SV * const pattern, const U32 flags);
#endif
When a regexp is compiled, its C<engine> field is then set to point at
-the appropriate structure so that when it needs to be used Perl can find
+the appropriate structure, so that when it needs to be used Perl can find
the right routines to do so.
In order to install a new regexp handler, C<$^H{regcomp}> is set
The C<pattern> parameter is the scalar that was used as the
pattern. previous versions of perl would pass two C<char*> indicating
-the start and end of the stringifed pattern, the following snippet can
+the start and end of the stringified pattern, the following snippet can
be used to get the old parameters:
STRLEN plen;
stringify everything using the snippet above but that doesn't mean
other engines have to.
-The C<flags> paramater is a bitfield which indicates which of the
+The C<flags> parameter is a bitfield which indicates which of the
C<msixp> flags the regex was compiled with. It also contains
additional info such as whether C<use locale> is in effect.
=item C</p> - RXf_PMf_KEEPCOPY
+TODO: Document this
+
+=item Character set
+
+The character set semantics are determined by an enum that is contained
+in this field. This is still experimental and subject to change, but
+the current interface returns the rules by use of the in-line function
+C<get_regex_charset(const U32 flags)>. The only currently documented
+value returned from it is REGEX_LOCALE_CHARSET, which is set if
+C<use locale> is in effect. If present in C<< rx->extflags >>,
+C<split> will use the locale dependent definition of whitespace
+when RXf_SKIPWHITE or RXf_WHITE is in effect. ASCII whitespace
+is defined as per L<isSPACE|perlapi/isSPACE>, and by the internal
+macros C<is_utf8_space> under UTF-8, and C<isSPACE_LC> under C<use
+locale>.
+
=back
Additional flags:
=over 4
-=item RXf_PMf_LOCALE
-
-Set if C<use locale> is in effect. If present in C<< rx->extflags >>
-C<split> will use the locale dependant definition of whitespace under
-when RXf_SKIPWHITE or RXf_WHITE are in effect. Under ASCII whitespace
-is defined as per L<isSPACE|perlapi/ISSPACE>, and by the internal
-macros C<is_utf8_space> under UTF-8 and C<isSPACE_LC> under C<use
-locale>.
-
=item RXf_UTF8
Set if the pattern is L<SvUTF8()|perlapi/SvUTF8>, set by Perl_pmruntime.
Perl's engine sets this flag if the pattern is C<\s+>.
+=item RXf_NULL
+
+Tells the split operator to split the target string on
+characters. The definition of character varies depending on whether
+the target string is a UTF-8 string.
+
+Perl's engine sets this flag on empty patterns, this optimization
+makes C<split //> much faster than it would otherwise be. It's even
+faster than C<unpack>.
+
=back
=head2 exec
Called to get/set the value of C<$`>, C<$'>, C<$&> and their named
equivalents, ${^PREMATCH}, ${^POSTMATCH} and $^{MATCH}, as well as the
-numbered capture buffers (C<$1>, C<$2>, ...).
+numbered capture groups (C<$1>, C<$2>, ...).
-The C<paren> paramater will be C<-2> for C<$`>, C<-1> for C<$'>, C<0>
+The C<paren> parameter will be C<-2> for C<$`>, C<-1> for C<$'>, C<0>
for C<$&>, C<1> for C<$1> and so forth.
The names have been chosen by analogy with L<Tie::Scalar> methods
Example:
if ("ook" =~ /(o*)/) {
- # `paren' will be `1' and `value' will be `ee'
+ # 'paren' will be '1' and 'value' will be 'ee'
$1 =~ tr/o/e/;
}
Perl's own engine will croak on any attempt to modify the capture
-variables, to do this in another engine use the following callack
+variables, to do this in another engine use the following callback
(copied from C<Perl_reg_numbered_buff_store>):
void
Perl_croak(aTHX_ PL_no_modify);
}
-Actually perl
5.10 will not I<always> croak in a statement that looks
+Actually perl will not I<always> croak in a statement that looks
like it would modify a numbered capture variable. This is because the
STORE callback will not be called if perl can determine that it
doesn't have to modify the value. This is exactly how tied variables
package main;
- tie my $sv => "CatptureVar";
+ tie my $sv => "CaptureVar";
$sv =~ y/a/b/;
Because C<$sv> is C<undef> when the C<y///> operator is applied to it
Get the C<length> of a capture variable. There's a special callback
for this so that perl doesn't have to do a FETCH and run C<length> on
the result, since the length is (in perl's case) known from an offset
-stored in C<<rx->offs> this is much more efficient:
+stored in C<< rx->offs >> this is much more efficient:
I32 s1 = rx->offs[paren].start;
I32 s2 = rx->offs[paren].end;
on the object.
The package this method returns should also have the internal
-C<Regexp> package in its C<@ISA>. C<qr//->isa("Regexp")> should always
+C<Regexp> package in its C<@ISA>. C<< qr//->isa("Regexp") >> should always
be true regardless of what engine is being used.
Example implementation might be:
void* dupe(pTHX_ REGEXP * const rx, CLONE_PARAMS *param);
On threaded builds a regexp may need to be duplicated so that the pattern
-can be used by mutiple threads. This routine is expected to handle the
+can be used by multiple threads. This routine is expected to handle the
duplication of any private data pointed to by the C<pprivate> member of
the regexp structure. It will be called with the preconstructed new
regexp structure as an argument, the C<pprivate> member will point at
-the B<old> private structue, and it is this routine's responsibility to
+the B<old> private structure, and it is this routine's responsibility to
construct a copy and return a pointer to it (which perl will then use to
overwrite the field as passed to this routine.)
in the final match, used for optimisations */
struct reg_substr_data *substrs;
- U32 nparens; /* number of capture buffers */
+ U32 nparens; /* number of capture groups */
/* private engine specific data */
U32 intflags; /* Engine Specific Internal flags */
where the C<minlen> would be 3 but C<minlenret> would only be 2 as the \d is
required to match but is not actually included in the matched content. This
distinction is particularly important as the substitution logic uses the
-C<minlenret> to tell whether it can do in-place substition which can result in
+C<minlenret> to tell whether it can do in-place substitution which can result in
considerable speedup.
=head2 C<gofs>
is currently only used internally by perl's engine for but might be
used in the future for all engines for optimisations.
-=head2 C<nparens>, C<lasparen>, and C<lastcloseparen>
+=head2 C<nparens>, C<lastparen>, and C<lastcloseparen>
These fields are used to keep track of how many paren groups could be matched
in the pattern, which was the last open paren to be entered, and which was
=head2 C<swap>
-TODO: document
+Unused. Left in for compatibility with perl 5.10.0.
=head2 C<offs>
} regexp_paren_pair;
If C<< ->offs[num].start >> or C<< ->offs[num].end >> is C<-1> then that
-capture buffer did not match. C<< ->offs[0].start/end >> represents C<$&> (or
+capture group did not match. C<< ->offs[0].start/end >> represents C<$&> (or
C<${^MATCH> under C<//p>) and C<< ->offs[paren].end >> matches C<$$paren> where
C<$paren >= 1>.
=head2 C<paren_names>
-This is a hash used internally to track named capture buffers and their
+This is a hash used internally to track named capture groups and their
offsets. The keys are the names of the buffers the values are dualvars,
with the IV slot holding the number of buffers with the given name and the
pv being an embedded array of I32. The values may also be contained
=head2 C<wrapped> C<wraplen>
Stores the string C<qr//> stringifies to. The perl engine for example
-stores C<(?-xism:eek)> in the case of C<qr/eek/>.
+stores C<(?^:eek)> in the case of C<qr/eek/>.
When using a custom engine that doesn't support the C<(?:)> construct
for inline modifiers, it's probably best to have C<qr//> stringify to
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