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.TH PCRE_EXEC 3 "12 May 2013" "PCRE 8.33"
.SH NAME
PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
.SH SYNOPSIS
.rs
.sp
.B #include <pcre.h>
.PP
.nf
.B int pcre_exec(const pcre *\fIcode\fP, "const pcre_extra *\fIextra\fP,"
.B " const char *\fIsubject\fP, int \fIlength\fP, int \fIstartoffset\fP,"
.B " int \fIoptions\fP, int *\fIovector\fP, int \fIovecsize\fP);"
.sp
.B int pcre16_exec(const pcre16 *\fIcode\fP, "const pcre16_extra *\fIextra\fP,"
.B " PCRE_SPTR16 \fIsubject\fP, int \fIlength\fP, int \fIstartoffset\fP,"
.B " int \fIoptions\fP, int *\fIovector\fP, int \fIovecsize\fP);"
.sp
.B int pcre32_exec(const pcre32 *\fIcode\fP, "const pcre32_extra *\fIextra\fP,"
.B " PCRE_SPTR32 \fIsubject\fP, int \fIlength\fP, int \fIstartoffset\fP,"
.B " int \fIoptions\fP, int *\fIovector\fP, int \fIovecsize\fP);"
.fi
.
.SH DESCRIPTION
.rs
.sp
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:
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\fIcode\fP Points to the compiled pattern
\fIextra\fP Points to an associated \fBpcre[16|32]_extra\fP structure,
or is NULL
\fIsubject\fP Points to the subject string
\fIlength\fP Length of the subject string
\fIstartoffset\fP Offset in the subject at which to start matching
\fIoptions\fP Option bits
\fIovector\fP Points to a vector of ints for result offsets
\fIovecsize\fP Number of elements in the vector (a multiple of 3)
.sp
The units for \fIlength\fP and \fIstartoffset\fP are bytes for
\fBpcre_exec()\fP, 16-bit data items for \fBpcre16_exec()\fP, and 32-bit items
for \fBpcre32_exec()\fP. The options are:
.sp
PCRE_ANCHORED Match only at the first position
PCRE_BSR_ANYCRLF \eR matches only CR, LF, or CRLF
PCRE_BSR_UNICODE \eR 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
.sp
For details of partial matching, see the
.\" HREF
\fBpcrepartial\fP
.\"
page. A \fBpcre_extra\fP structure contains the following fields:
.sp
\fIflags\fP Bits indicating which fields are set
\fIstudy_data\fP Opaque data from \fBpcre[16|32]_study()\fP
\fImatch_limit\fP Limit on internal resource use
\fImatch_limit_recursion\fP Limit on internal recursion depth
\fIcallout_data\fP Opaque data passed back to callouts
\fItables\fP Points to character tables or is NULL
\fImark\fP For passing back a *MARK pointer
\fIexecutable_jit\fP Opaque data from JIT compilation
.sp
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.
.P
There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the
.\" HREF
\fBpcreapi\fP
.\"
page and a description of the POSIX API in the
.\" HREF
\fBpcreposix\fP
.\"
page.
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