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2026-08-18refactor(preg): anchor A patterns at the call sitensfisis
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>
2026-06-14docs(regex): add regex porting rulesnsfisis
Document the conventions for porting PCRE patterns to the regex crate (no PCRE crate, panic on compile failure, dropping performance-only possessive quantifiers, ad-hoc compatibility comments). Apply the rule to Platform::expand_path by rewriting its conditional subpattern as an explicit alternation, which the regex crate can compile. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>