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authornsfisis <nsfisis@gmail.com>2026-08-18 01:57:02 +0900
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refactor(preg): anchor A patterns at the call site
The shim carried the PCRE A (anchored) modifier alongside every compiled pattern so preg_match2 could honour it by searching the sub-slice at the offset. Only two call sites ever passed such a pattern, and each can cut that slice itself, so the flag is gone from the cache, ResolvedPattern, PregPattern and the php_regex! macro, and a pattern still carrying A is now rejected rather than silently searched unanchored. StringInput::tokenize and PhpFileCleaner::match search from their cursor with a `^`-prefixed pattern instead. The rule is written down in docs/dev/regex-porting.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -27,6 +27,19 @@ for performance, replace it with the plain quantifier (`+`, `*`, `?`).
The `regex` crate never backtracks, so it has no possessive quantifiers and has no need for them.
+## `A` (anchored) modifier
+
+The PCRE `A` modifier requires the match to start exactly at the search offset. The `regex` crate
+anchors a pattern only at the head of the haystack.
+
+Port such a pattern by searching the sub-slice that begins at the offset, with a `^` in place of
+the `A` modifier:
+
+```rust
+// PHP: preg_match('/foo/A', $subject, offset: $offset)
+preg_match(php_regex!(r"/^foo/"), &subject[offset..])
+```
+
## Port other unsupported features ad hoc
For any other PCRE feature the `regex` crate does not support (conditional subpatterns,