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NAME

PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions  

SYNOPSIS

#include <pcre.h>

int pcre_get_named_substring(const pcre *code,
      const char *subject, int *ovector,
      int stringcount, const char *stringname,
      const char **stringptr);

 

DESCRIPTION

This is a convenience function for extracting a captured substring by name. The arguments are:

  code          Compiled pattern
  subject       Subject that has been successfully matched
  ovector       Offset vector that pcre_exec() used
  stringcount   Value returned by pcre_exec()
  stringname    Name of the required substring
  stringptr     Where to put the string pointer

The yield is the length of the extracted substring, PCRE_ERROR_NOMEMORY if sufficient memory could not be obtained, or PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING if the string name is invalid.

There is a complete description of the PCRE API in the pcreapi page.

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