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pcre2_substring_get_bynumber (3)

Name

pcre2_substring_get_bynumber - compatible regular expressions (revised API)

Synopsis

#include <pcre2.h>

int pcre2_substring_get_bynumber(pcre2_match_data *match_data,
uint32_t number, PCRE2_UCHAR **bufferptr, PCRE2_SIZE *bufflen);

Description

Library Functions Manual                       PCRE2_SUBSTRING_GET_BYNUMBER(3)



NAME
       PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcre2.h>

       int pcre2_substring_get_bynumber(pcre2_match_data *match_data,
         uint32_t number, PCRE2_UCHAR **bufferptr, PCRE2_SIZE *bufflen);

DESCRIPTION

       This  is  a convenience function for extracting a captured substring by
       number into newly acquired memory. The arguments are:

         match_data    The match data for the match
         number        Number of the required substring
         bufferptr     Where to put the string pointer
         bufflen       Where to put the string length

       The memory in which the substring is placed is obtained by calling  the
       same memory allocation function that was used for the match data block.
       The convenience function pcre2_substring_free() can be used to free  it
       when it is no longer needed. The yield of the function is zero for suc-
       cess or one of the following error numbers:

         PCRE2_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING   there are no groups of that number
         PCRE2_ERROR_UNAVAILBLE    the ovector was too small for that group
         PCRE2_ERROR_UNSET         the group did not participate in the match
         PCRE2_ERROR_NOMEMORY      memory could not be obtained


       There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the pcre2api
       page and a description of the POSIX API in the pcre2posix page.



ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | library/pcre2    |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
       +---------------+------------------+

NOTES
       Source  code  for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This     software     was    built    from    source    available    at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.   The  original   community
       source      was     downloaded     from      https://github.com/Philip-
       Hazel/pcre2/releases/download/pcre2-10.39/pcre2-10.39.tar.gz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://pcre.org/.



PCRE2 10.00                    13 December 2014
                                               PCRE2_SUBSTRING_GET_BYNUMBER(3)