Perl::Critic::Policy::RegularExpressions::ProhibitEnumeratedClasses - Use named character classes instead of explicit character lists.


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Perl::Critic::Policy::RegularExpressions::ProhibitEnumeratedClasses - Use named character classes instead of explicit character lists.

AFFILIATION

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This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.

DESCRIPTION

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This policy is not for everyone! If you are working in pure ASCII, then disable it now or you may see some false violations.

On the other hand many of us are working in a multilingual world with an extended character set, probably Unicode. In that world, patterns like m/[A-Z]/ can be a source of bugs when you really meant m/\p{IsUpper}/. This policy catches a selection of possible incorrect character class usage.

Specifically, the patterns are:

[\t\r\n\f\ ] vs. \s

[\t\r\n\ ] vs. \s (because many people forget \f)

[A-Za-z_] vs. \w

[A-Za-z] vs. \p{IsAlphabetic}

[A-Z] vs. \p{IsUpper}

[a-z] vs. \p{IsLower}

[0-9] vs. \d

[^\w] vs. \W

[^\s] vs. \S

CONFIGURATION

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This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.

CREDITS

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Initial development of this policy was supported by a grant from the Perl Foundation.

AUTHOR

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Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>

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Perl-Critic documentation Contained in the Perl-Critic distribution.

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#      $URL: http://perlcritic.tigris.org/svn/perlcritic/trunk/distributions/Perl-Critic/lib/Perl/Critic/Policy/RegularExpressions/ProhibitEnumeratedClasses.pm $
#     $Date: 2011-05-15 16:34:46 -0500 (Sun, 15 May 2011) $
#   $Author: clonezone $
# $Revision: 4078 $
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package Perl::Critic::Policy::RegularExpressions::ProhibitEnumeratedClasses;

use 5.006001;
use strict;
use warnings;

use Carp qw(carp);
use English qw(-no_match_vars);
use List::MoreUtils qw(all);
use Readonly;

use Perl::Critic::Utils qw{ :booleans :severities hashify };

use base 'Perl::Critic::Policy';

our $VERSION = '1.116';

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Readonly::Scalar my $DESC => q{Use named character classes};
Readonly::Scalar my $EXPL => [248];

Readonly::Array my @PATTERNS => (  # order matters: most to least specific
   [q{ },'\\t','\\r','\\n']      => ['\\s', '\\S'],
   ['A-Z','a-z','_']             => ['\\w', '\\W'],
   ['A-Z','a-z']                 => ['[[:alpha:]]','[[:^alpha:]]'],
   ['A-Z']                       => ['[[:upper:]]','[[:^upper:]]'],
   ['a-z']                       => ['[[:lower:]]','[[:^lower:]]'],
   ['0-9']                       => ['\\d','\\D'],
   ['\w']                        => [undef, '\\W'],
   ['\s']                        => [undef, '\\S'],
);

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

sub supported_parameters { return qw()                    }
sub default_severity     { return $SEVERITY_LOWEST        }
sub default_themes       { return qw( core pbp cosmetic unicode ) }
sub applies_to           { return qw(PPI::Token::Regexp::Match
                                     PPI::Token::Regexp::Substitute
                                     PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Regexp) }

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------


sub violates {
    my ( $self, $elem, $document ) = @_;

    # optimization: don't bother parsing the regexp if there are no character classes
    return if $elem !~ m/\[/xms;

    my $re = $document->ppix_regexp_from_element( $elem ) or return;
    $re->failures() and return;

    my $anyofs = $re->find( 'PPIx::Regexp::Structure::CharClass' )
        or return;
    foreach my $anyof ( @{ $anyofs } ) {
        my $violation;
        $violation = $self->_get_character_class_violations( $elem, $anyof )
            and return $violation;
    }

    return;  # OK
}

sub _get_character_class_violations {
    my ($self, $elem, $anyof) = @_;

    my %elements;
    foreach my $element ( $anyof->children() ) {
        $elements{ _fixup( $element ) } = 1;
    }

    for (my $i = 0; $i < @PATTERNS; $i += 2) {  ##no critic (CStyleForLoop)
        if (all { exists $elements{$_} } @{$PATTERNS[$i]}) {
            my $neg = $anyof->negated();
            my $improvement = $PATTERNS[$i + 1]->[$neg ? 1 : 0];
            next if !defined $improvement;

            if ($neg && ! defined $PATTERNS[$i + 1]->[0]) {
                # the [^\w] => \W rule only applies if \w is the only token.
                # that is it does not apply to [^\w\s]
                next if 1 != scalar keys %elements;
            }

            my $orig = join q{}, '[', ($neg ? q{^} : ()), @{$PATTERNS[$i]}, ']';
            return $self->violation( $DESC . " ($orig vs. $improvement)", $EXPL, $elem );
        }
    }

    return;  # OK
}

Readonly::Hash my %ORDINALS => (
    ord "\n"    => '\\n',
    ord "\f"    => '\\f',
    ord "\r"    => '\\r',
    ord q< >    => q< >,
);

sub _fixup {
    my ( $element ) = @_;
    if ( $element->isa( 'PPIx::Regexp::Token::Literal' ) ) {
        my $ord = $element->ordinal();
        exists $ORDINALS{$ord} and return $ORDINALS{$ord};
        return $element->content();
    } elsif ( $element->isa( 'PPIx::Regexp::Node' ) ) {
        return join q{}, map{ _fixup( $_ ) } $element->elements();
    } else {
        return $element->content();
    }
}

1;

__END__

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