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pcre2_substring_list_get (3)

Name

pcre2_substring_list_get - compatible regular expressions (revised API)

Synopsis

#include <pcre2.h>

int pcre2_substring_list_get(pcre2_match_data *match_data,
PCRE2_UCHAR ***listptr, PCRE2_SIZE **lengthsptr);

Description

Library Functions Manual                           PCRE2_SUBSTRING_LIST_GET(3)



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

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcre2.h>

       int pcre2_substring_list_get(pcre2_match_data *match_data,
         PCRE2_UCHAR ***listptr, PCRE2_SIZE **lengthsptr);

DESCRIPTION

       This  is  a  convenience  function for extracting all the captured sub-
       strings after a pattern match. It builds a  list  of  pointers  to  the
       strings, and (optionally) a second list that contains their lengths (in
       code units), excluding a terminating zero that  is  added  to  each  of
       them.  All  this  is  done in a single block of memory that is obtained
       using the same memory allocation function that  was  used  to  get  the
       match  data block. The convenience function pcre2_substring_list_free()
       can be used to free it when it is no longer needed. The arguments are:

         match_data    The match data block
         listptr       Where to put a pointer to the list
         lengthsptr    Where to put a pointer to the lengths, or NULL

       A pointer to a list of pointers is put in the variable whose address is
       in  listptr. The list is terminated by a NULL pointer. If lengthsptr is
       not NULL, a matching list of lengths is created,  and  its  address  is
       placed  in  lengthsptr. The yield of the function is zero on success or
       PCRE2_ERROR_NOMEMORY if sufficient 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                     21 October 2014
                                                   PCRE2_SUBSTRING_LIST_GET(3)