PCRE(3)PCRE(3)NAME
PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
SYNOPSIS
#include <pcre.h>
int pcre_exec(const pcre *code, const pcre_extra *extra,
const char *subject, int length, int startoffset,
int options, int *ovector, int ovecsize);
DESCRIPTION
This function matches a compiled regular expression against a given
subject string, and returns offsets to capturing subexpressions. Its
arguments are:
code Points to the compiled pattern
extra Points to an associated pcre_extra structure,
or is NULL
subject Points to the subject string
length Length of the subject string, in bytes
startoffset Offset in bytes in the subject at which to
start matching
options Option bits
ovector Points to a vector of ints for result offsets
ovecsize Size of the vector (a multiple of 3)
The options are:
PCRE_ANCHORED Match only at the first position
PCRE_NOTBOL Subject is not the beginning of a line
PCRE_NOTEOL Subject is not the end of a line
PCRE_NOTEMPTY An empty string is not a valid match
PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK Do not check the subject for UTF-8
validity (only relevant if PCRE_UTF8
was set at compile time)
There is a complete description of the PCRE API in the pcreapi page.
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