pcre2_substring_copy_bynumber(3) — Linux manual page

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PCRE2_SU..._BYNUMBER(3) Library Functions Manual PCRE2_SU..._BYNUMBER(3)

NAME top

       PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)

SYNOPSIS top


       #include <pcre2.h>

       int pcre2_substring_copy_bynumber(pcre2_match_data *match_data,
         uint32_t number, PCRE2_UCHAR *buffer,
         PCRE2_SIZE *bufflen);

DESCRIPTION top


       This is a convenience function for extracting a captured
       substring into a given buffer. The arguments are:

         match_data    The match data block for the match
         number        Number of the required substring
         buffer        Buffer to receive the string
         bufflen       Length of buffer

       The bufflen variable is updated with the length of the extracted
       string, excluding the terminating zero. The yield of the function
       is zero for success 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      the buffer is too small

       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.

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PCRE2 10.00                 13 December 2014     PCRE2_SU..._BYNUMBER(3)