package re;
our $VERSION = 0.06_01;
=head1 NAME
re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use re 'taint';
($x) = ($^X =~ /^(.*)$/s); # $x is tainted here
$pat = '(?{ $foo = 1 })';
use re 'eval';
/foo${pat}bar/; # won't fail (when not under -T switch)
{
no re 'taint'; # the default
($x) = ($^X =~ /^(.*)$/s); # $x is not tainted here
no re 'eval'; # the default
/foo${pat}bar/; # disallowed (with or without -T switch)
}
use re 'debug'; # NOT lexically scoped (as others are)
/^(.*)$/s; # output debugging info during
# compile and run time
use re 'debugcolor'; # same as 'debug', but with colored output
...
use re qw(Debug All); # Finer tuned debugging options.
use re qw(Debug More); # Similarly not lexically scoped.
no re qw(Debug ALL); # Turn of all re dugging and unload the module.
(We use $^X in these examples because it's tainted by default.)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
When C<use re 'taint'> is in effect, and a tainted string is the target
of a regex, the regex memories (or values returned by the m// operator
in list context) are tainted. This feature is useful when regex operations
on tainted data aren't meant to extract safe substrings, but to perform
other transformations.
When C<use re 'eval'> is in effect, a regex is allowed to contain
C<(?{ ... })> zero-width assertions even if regular expression contains
variable interpolation. That is normally disallowed, since it is a
potential security risk. Note that this pragma is ignored when the regular
expression is obtained from tainted data, i.e. evaluation is always
disallowed with tainted regular expressions. See L<perlre/(?{ code })>.
For the purpose of this pragma, interpolation of precompiled regular
expressions (i.e., the result of C<qr//>) is I<not> considered variable
interpolation. Thus:
/foo${pat}bar/
I<is> allowed if $pat is a precompiled regular expression, even
if $pat contains C<(?{ ... })> assertions.
When C<use re 'debug'> is in effect, perl emits debugging messages when
compiling and using regular expressions. The output is the same as that
obtained by running a C<-DDEBUGGING>-enabled perl interpreter with the
B<-Dr> switch. It may be quite voluminous depending on the complexity
of the match. Using C<debugcolor> instead of C<debug> enables a
form of output that can be used to get a colorful display on terminals
that understand termcap color sequences. Set C<$ENV{PERL_RE_TC}> to a
comma-separated list of C<termcap> properties to use for highlighting
strings on/off, pre-point part on/off.
See L<perldebug/"Debugging regular expressions"> for additional info.
Similarly C<use re 'Debug'> produces debugging output, the difference
being that it allows the fine tuning of what debugging output will be
emitted. Options are divided into three groups, those related to
compilation, those related to execution and those related to special
purposes. The options are as follows:
=over 4
=item Compile related options
=over 4
=item COMPILE
Turns on all compile related debug options.
=item PARSE
Turns on debug output related to the process of parsing the pattern.
=item OPTIMISE
Enables output related to the optimisation phase of compilation.
=item TRIE_COMPILE
Detailed info about trie compilation.
=item DUMP
Dump the final program out after it is compiled and optimised.
=item OFFSETS
Dump offset information. This can be used to see how regops correlate
to the pattern. Output format is
NODENUM:POSITION[LENGTH]
Where 1 is the position of the first char in the string. Note that position
can be 0, or larger than the actual length of the pattern, likewise length
can be zero.
=back
=item Execute related options
=over 4
=item EXECUTE
Turns on all execute related debug options.
=item MATCH
Turns on debugging of the main matching loop.
=item TRIE_EXECUTE
Extra debugging of how tries execute.
=item INTUIT
Enable debugging of start point optimisations.
=back
=item Extra debugging options
=over 4
=item EXTRA
Turns on all "extra" debugging options.
=item TRIE_MORE
Enable enhanced TRIE debugging. Enhances both TRIE_EXECUTE
and TRIE_COMPILE.
=item OFFSETS_DEBUG
Enable debugging of offsets information. This emits copious
amounts of trace information and doesnt mesh well with other
debug options.
Almost definately only useful to people hacking
on the offsets part of the debug engine.
=back
=item Other useful flags
These are useful shortcuts to save on the typing.
=over 4
=item ALL
Enable all compile and execute options at once.
=item All
Enable DUMP and all execute options. Equivelent to:
use re 'debug';
=item MORE
=item More
Enable TRIE_MORE and all execute compile and execute options.
=back 4
=back 4
The directive C<use re 'debug'> and its equivalents are I<not> lexically
scoped, as the other directives are. They have both compile-time and run-time
effects.
See L<perlmodlib/Pragmatic Modules>.
=cut
# N.B. File::Basename contains a literal for 'taint' as a fallback. If
# taint is changed here, File::Basename must be updated as well.
my %bitmask = (
taint => 0x00100000, # HINT_RE_TAINT
eval => 0x00200000, # HINT_RE_EVAL
);
sub setcolor {
eval { # Ignore errors
require Term::Cap;
my $terminal = Tgetent Term::Cap ({OSPEED => 9600}); # Avoid warning.
my $props = $ENV{PERL_RE_TC} || 'md,me,so,se,us,ue';
my @props = split /,/, $props;
my $colors = join "\t", map {$terminal->Tputs($_,1)} @props;
$colors =~ s/\0//g;
$ENV{PERL_RE_COLORS} = $colors;
};
}
my %flags = (
COMPILE => 0x0000FF,
PARSE => 0x000001,
OPTIMISE => 0x000002,
TRIE_COMPILE => 0x000004,
DUMP => 0x000008,
OFFSETS => 0x000010,
EXECUTE => 0x00FF00,
INTUIT => 0x000100,
MATCH => 0x000200,
TRIE_EXECUTE => 0x000400,
EXTRA => 0xFF0000,
TRIE_MORE => 0x010000,
OFFSETS_DEBUG => 0x020000,
STATE => 0x040000,
);
$flags{ALL} = $flags{COMPILE} | $flags{EXECUTE} | $flags{STATE};
$flags{All} = $flags{all} = $flags{DUMP} | $flags{EXECUTE};
$flags{More} = $flags{MORE} = $flags{ALL} | $flags{TRIE_MORE};
$flags{State} = $flags{DUMP} | $flags{EXECUTE} | $flags{STATE};
my $installed = 0;
sub _load_unload {
my $on = shift;
require XSLoader;
XSLoader::load('re');
install($on);
}
sub bits {
my $on = shift;
my $bits = 0;
unless (@_) {
require Carp;
Carp::carp("Useless use of \"re\" pragma");
}
foreach my $idx (0..$#_){
my $s=$_[$idx];
if ($s eq 'Debug' or $s eq 'Debugcolor') {
setcolor() if $s eq 'Debugcolor';
${^RE_DEBUG_FLAGS} = 0 unless defined ${^RE_DEBUG_FLAGS};
for my $idx ($idx+1..$#_) {
if ($flags{$_[$idx]}) {
if ($on) {
${^RE_DEBUG_FLAGS} |= $flags{$_[$idx]};
} else {
${^RE_DEBUG_FLAGS} &= ~ $flags{$_[$idx]};
}
} else {
require Carp;
Carp::carp("Unknown \"re\" Debug flag '$_[$idx]', possible flags: ",
join(", ",sort { $flags{$a} <=> $flags{$b} } keys %flags ) );
}
}
_load_unload($on ? 1 : ${^RE_DEBUG_FLAGS});
last;
} elsif ($s eq 'debug' or $s eq 'debugcolor') {
setcolor() if $s eq 'debugcolor';
_load_unload($on);
} elsif (exists $bitmask{$s}) {
$bits |= $bitmask{$s};
} else {
require Carp;
Carp::carp("Unknown \"re\" subpragma '$s' (known ones are: ",
join(', ', map {qq('$_')} 'debug', 'debugcolor', sort keys %bitmask),
")");
}
}
$bits;
}
sub import {
shift;
$^H |= bits(1, @_);
}
sub unimport {
shift;
$^H &= ~ bits(0, @_);
}
1;