From 437835559168a5945a1196161660c439266eb59d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: George Hazan
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+
+This page is part of the PCRE HTML documentation. It was generated automatically
+from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, please consult the
+man page, in case the conversion went wrong.
+
+#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);
+
+This function matches a compiled regular expression against a given subject
+string, using a matching algorithm that is similar to Perl's. It returns
+offsets to captured substrings. Its arguments are:
+pcre_exec man page
+
+
+SYNOPSIS
+
+
+
+int pcre16_exec(const pcre16 *code, const pcre16_extra *extra,
+ PCRE_SPTR16 subject, int length, int startoffset,
+ int options, int *ovector, int ovecsize);
+
+
+int pcre32_exec(const pcre32 *code, const pcre32_extra *extra,
+ PCRE_SPTR32 subject, int length, int startoffset,
+ int options, int *ovector, int ovecsize);
+
+DESCRIPTION
+
+
+ code Points to the compiled pattern
+ extra Points to an associated pcre[16|32]_extra structure,
+ or is NULL
+ subject Points to the subject string
+ length Length of the subject string
+ startoffset Offset in the subject at which to start matching
+ options Option bits
+ ovector Points to a vector of ints for result offsets
+ ovecsize Number of elements in the vector (a multiple of 3)
+
+The units for length and startoffset are bytes for
+pcre_exec(), 16-bit data items for pcre16_exec(), and 32-bit items
+for pcre32_exec(). The options are:
+
+ PCRE_ANCHORED Match only at the first position
+ PCRE_BSR_ANYCRLF \R matches only CR, LF, or CRLF
+ PCRE_BSR_UNICODE \R matches all Unicode line endings
+ PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY Recognize any Unicode newline sequence
+ PCRE_NEWLINE_ANYCRLF Recognize CR, LF, & CRLF as newline sequences
+ PCRE_NEWLINE_CR Recognize CR as the only newline sequence
+ PCRE_NEWLINE_CRLF Recognize CRLF as the only newline sequence
+ PCRE_NEWLINE_LF Recognize LF as the only newline sequence
+ PCRE_NOTBOL Subject string is not the beginning of a line
+ PCRE_NOTEOL Subject string is not the end of a line
+ PCRE_NOTEMPTY An empty string is not a valid match
+ PCRE_NOTEMPTY_ATSTART An empty string at the start of the subject
+ is not a valid match
+ PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE Do not do "start-match" optimizations
+ PCRE_NO_UTF16_CHECK Do not check the subject for UTF-16
+ validity (only relevant if PCRE_UTF16
+ was set at compile time)
+ PCRE_NO_UTF32_CHECK Do not check the subject for UTF-32
+ validity (only relevant if PCRE_UTF32
+ was set at compile time)
+ PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK Do not check the subject for UTF-8
+ validity (only relevant if PCRE_UTF8
+ was set at compile time)
+ PCRE_PARTIAL ) Return PCRE_ERROR_PARTIAL for a partial
+ PCRE_PARTIAL_SOFT ) match if no full matches are found
+ PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD Return PCRE_ERROR_PARTIAL for a partial match
+ if that is found before a full match
+
+For details of partial matching, see the
+pcrepartial
+page. A pcre_extra structure contains the following fields:
+
+ flags Bits indicating which fields are set
+ study_data Opaque data from pcre[16|32]_study()
+ match_limit Limit on internal resource use
+ match_limit_recursion Limit on internal recursion depth
+ callout_data Opaque data passed back to callouts
+ tables Points to character tables or is NULL
+ mark For passing back a *MARK pointer
+ executable_jit Opaque data from JIT compilation
+
+The flag bits are PCRE_EXTRA_STUDY_DATA, PCRE_EXTRA_MATCH_LIMIT,
+PCRE_EXTRA_MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION, PCRE_EXTRA_CALLOUT_DATA,
+PCRE_EXTRA_TABLES, PCRE_EXTRA_MARK and PCRE_EXTRA_EXECUTABLE_JIT.
+
+There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the +pcreapi +page and a description of the POSIX API in the +pcreposix +page. +
+Return to the PCRE index page. +
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