=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.
=over 4
-=item RXf_SKIPWHITE
-
-If C<split> is invoked as C<split ' '> or with no arguments (which
-really means C<split(' ', $_>, see L<split|perlfunc/split>), perl will set
-this flag and change the pattern from C<" "> to C<"\s+"> before it's
-passed to the comp routine.
-
-If the flag is present in C<< rx->extflags >> C<split> to delete
-whitespace from the start of the subject string before it's operated
-on. What is considered whitespace depends on whether the subject is a
-UTF-8 string and whether the C<RXf_PMf_LOCALE> flag is set.
-
-This probably always be preserved verbatim in C<< rx->extflags >>.
-
=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
+C<split> will use the locale dependent 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
strings to UTF-8 if the pattern includes constructs such as C<\x{...}>
that can only match Unicode values.
+=item RXf_SPLIT
+
+If C<split> is invoked as C<split ' '> or with no arguments (which
+really means C<split(' ', $_)>, see L<split|perlfunc/split>), perl will
+set this flag. The regex engine can then check for it and set the
+SKIPWHITE and WHITE extflags. To do this the perl engine does:
+
+ if (flags & RXf_SPLIT && r->prelen == 1 && r->precomp[0] == ' ')
+ r->extflags |= (RXf_SKIPWHITE|RXf_WHITE);
+
=back
These flags can be set during compilation to enable optimizations in
=over 4
+=item RXf_SKIPWHITE
+
+If the flag is present in C<< rx->extflags >> C<split> will delete
+whitespace from the start of the subject string before it's operated
+on. What is considered whitespace depends on whether the subject is a
+UTF-8 string and whether the C<RXf_PMf_LOCALE> flag is set.
+
+If RXf_WHITE is set in addition to this flag C<split> will behave like
+C<split " "> under the perl engine.
+
=item RXf_START_ONLY
Tells the split operator to split the target string on newlines
depending on whether the target string is a UTF-8 string and on
whether RXf_PMf_LOCALE is set.
-Perl's engine sets this flag if the pattern is C<\s+>, which it will be if
-the pattern actually was C<\s+> or if it was originally C<" "> (see
-C<RXf_SKIPWHITE> above).
+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
equivalents, ${^PREMATCH}, ${^POSTMATCH} and $^{MATCH}, as well as the
numbered capture buffers (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
}
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
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;
Which L<Tie::Hash> operation is being performed from the Perl level on
C<%+> or C<%+>, if any:
- RXf_HASH_FETCH
- RXf_HASH_STORE
- RXf_HASH_DELETE
- RXf_HASH_CLEAR
- RXf_HASH_EXISTS
- RXf_HASH_SCALAR
- RXf_HASH_FIRSTKEY
- RXf_HASH_NEXTKEY
+ RXapif_FETCH
+ RXapif_STORE
+ RXapif_DELETE
+ RXapif_CLEAR
+ RXapif_EXISTS
+ RXapif_SCALAR
+ RXapif_FIRSTKEY
+ RXapif_NEXTKEY
Whether C<%+> or C<%-> is being operated on, if any.
- RXf_HASH_ONE /* %+ */
- RXf_HASH_ALL /* %- */
+ RXapif_ONE /* %+ */
+ RXapif_ALL /* %- */
Whether this is being called as C<re::regname>, C<re::regnames> or
C<re::regnames_count>, if any. The first two will be combined with
-C<RXf_HASH_ONE> or C<RXf_HASH_ALL>.
+C<RXapif_ONE> or C<RXapif_ALL>.
- RXf_HASH_REGNAME
- RXf_HASH_REGNAMES
- RXf_HASH_REGNAMES_COUNT
+ RXapif_REGNAME
+ RXapif_REGNAMES
+ RXapif_REGNAMES_COUNT
Internally C<%+> and C<%-> are implemented with a real tied interface
via L<Tie::Hash::NamedCapture>. The methods in that package will call
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.)
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>
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