Move regression tests to public Unmarshal API with full error string assertions

Remove the unstable package test and consolidate all test cases into
TestDecodeError_PositionAfterComment, which exercises toml.Unmarshal
and validates the complete human-readable error output including
context lines and tilde markers.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01EXYfFXc3DDGpQ27sWdXTKq

errors_test.go

@@ -301,6 +301,73 @@ OtherMissing = 1
 	assert.Equal(t, 2, len(strictErr.Unwrap()))
 }
 
+func TestDecodeError_PositionAfterComment(t *testing.T) {
+	// Regression test for https://github.com/pelletier/go-toml/issues/1047
+	// Error positions must be correct when the error occurs after comments or
+	// other content that was already scanned past.
+	examples := []struct {
+		desc        string
+		doc         string
+		expectedRow int
+		expectedCol int
+		expectedStr string
+	}{
+		{
+			desc:        "invalid key after comment",
+			doc:         "# comment\n= \"value\"",
+			expectedRow: 2,
+			expectedCol: 1,
+			expectedStr: "1| # comment\n2| = \"value\"\n | ~ invalid character at start of key: =",
+		},
+		{
+			desc:        "invalid key after two comments",
+			doc:         "# one\n# two\n= \"value\"",
+			expectedRow: 3,
+			expectedCol: 1,
+			expectedStr: "1| # one\n2| # two\n3| = \"value\"\n | ~ invalid character at start of key: =",
+		},
+		{
+			desc:        "invalid key after key-value pair",
+			doc:         "a = 1\n= 2",
+			expectedRow: 2,
+			expectedCol: 1,
+			expectedStr: "1| a = 1\n2| = 2\n | ~ invalid character at start of key: =",
+		},
+		{
+			desc:        "invalid key after blank line",
+			doc:         "a = 1\n\n= 2",
+			expectedRow: 3,
+			expectedCol: 1,
+			expectedStr: "1| a = 1\n2|\n3| = 2\n | ~ invalid character at start of key: =",
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, e := range examples {
+		t.Run(e.desc, func(t *testing.T) {
+			var v interface{}
+			err := Unmarshal([]byte(e.doc), &v)
+			if err == nil {
+				t.Fatal("expected an error")
+			}
+
+			var derr *DecodeError
+			if !errors.As(err, &derr) {
+				t.Fatalf("error not a *DecodeError: %T: %v", err, err)
+			}
+
+			row, col := derr.Position()
+			if row != e.expectedRow {
+				t.Errorf("row: got %d, want %d (error: %s)", row, e.expectedRow, derr.String())
+			}
+			if col != e.expectedCol {
+				t.Errorf("col: got %d, want %d (error: %s)", col, e.expectedCol, derr.String())
+			}
+
+			assert.Equal(t, e.expectedStr, derr.String())
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 func ExampleDecodeError() {
 	doc := `name = 123__456`
 

unstable/parser.go

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package unstable
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"fmt"
+	"reflect"
 	"unicode"
 
 	"github.com/pelletier/go-toml/v2/internal/characters"
@@ -83,10 +84,14 @@ func (p *Parser) rangeOfToken(token, rest []byte) Range {
 }
 
 // subsliceOffset returns the byte offset of subslice b within p.data.
-// b must be a suffix (tail) of p.data.
+// b must be a subslice of p.data (sharing the same backing array).
 func (p *Parser) subsliceOffset(b []byte) int {
-	// b is a suffix of p.data, so its offset is len(p.data) - len(b)
+	if len(b) == 0 {
-	return len(p.data) - len(b)
+		return 0
+	}
+	dataPtr := reflect.ValueOf(p.data).Pointer()
+	subPtr := reflect.ValueOf(b).Pointer()
+	return int(subPtr - dataPtr)
 }
 
 // Raw returns the slice corresponding to the bytes in the given range.