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PCRE

Section: C Library Functions (3)
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NAME

PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

SYNOPSIS

#include <pcre.h>

int pcre_get_substring(const char *subject, int *ovector,
int stringcount, int stringnumber,
const char **stringptr);

DESCRIPTION

This is a convenience function for extracting a captured substring. Thearguments 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
  stringptr     Where to put the string pointer

The yield is the length of the substring, PCRE_ERROR_NOMEMORY if sufficientmemory could not be obtained, or PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING if the string number isinvalid.

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

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