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PCRE

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NAME

PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

SYNOPSIS

#include <pcre.h>

int pcre_copy_substring(const char *subject, int *ovector,
int stringcount, int stringnumber, char *buffer,
int buffersize);

DESCRIPTION

This is a convenience function for extracting a captured substring into a givenbuffer. The arguments are:

  subject       Subject that has been successfully matched
  ovector       Offset vector that pcre_exec() used
  stringcount   Value returned by pcre_exec()
  stringnumber  Number of the required substring
  buffer        Buffer to receive the string
  buffersize    Size of buffer

The yield is the legnth of the string, PCRE_ERROR_NOMEMORY if the buffer wastoo small, or PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING if the string number is invalid.

There is a complete description of the PCRE API in thepcreapipage.

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