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                      2: <head>
                      3: <title>pcre_exec specification</title>
                      4: </head>
                      5: <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#3399FF" vlink="#2222BB">
                      6: <h1>pcre_exec man page</h1>
                      7: <p>
                      8: Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>.
                      9: </p>
                     10: <p>
                     11: This page is part of the PCRE HTML documentation. It was generated automatically
                     12: from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, please consult the
                     13: man page, in case the conversion went wrong.
                     14: <br>
                     15: <br><b>
                     16: SYNOPSIS
                     17: </b><br>
                     18: <P>
                     19: <b>#include &#60;pcre.h&#62;</b>
                     20: </P>
                     21: <P>
                     22: <b>int pcre_exec(const pcre *<i>code</i>, const pcre_extra *<i>extra</i>,</b>
                     23: <b>const char *<i>subject</i>, int <i>length</i>, int <i>startoffset</i>,</b>
                     24: <b>int <i>options</i>, int *<i>ovector</i>, int <i>ovecsize</i>);</b>
                     25: </P>
1.1.1.2 ! misho      26: <P>
        !            27: <b>int pcre16_exec(const pcre16 *<i>code</i>, const pcre16_extra *<i>extra</i>,</b>
        !            28: <b>PCRE_SPTR16 <i>subject</i>, int <i>length</i>, int <i>startoffset</i>,</b>
        !            29: <b>int <i>options</i>, int *<i>ovector</i>, int <i>ovecsize</i>);</b>
        !            30: </P>
1.1       misho      31: <br><b>
                     32: DESCRIPTION
                     33: </b><br>
                     34: <P>
                     35: This function matches a compiled regular expression against a given subject
                     36: string, using a matching algorithm that is similar to Perl's. It returns
                     37: offsets to captured substrings. Its arguments are:
                     38: <pre>
                     39:   <i>code</i>         Points to the compiled pattern
1.1.1.2 ! misho      40:   <i>extra</i>        Points to an associated <b>pcre[16]_extra</b> structure,
1.1       misho      41:                  or is NULL
                     42:   <i>subject</i>      Points to the subject string
                     43:   <i>length</i>       Length of the subject string, in bytes
                     44:   <i>startoffset</i>  Offset in bytes in the subject at which to
                     45:                  start matching
                     46:   <i>options</i>      Option bits
                     47:   <i>ovector</i>      Points to a vector of ints for result offsets
                     48:   <i>ovecsize</i>     Number of elements in the vector (a multiple of 3)
                     49: </pre>
                     50: The options are:
                     51: <pre>
                     52:   PCRE_ANCHORED          Match only at the first position
                     53:   PCRE_BSR_ANYCRLF       \R matches only CR, LF, or CRLF
                     54:   PCRE_BSR_UNICODE       \R matches all Unicode line endings
                     55:   PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY       Recognize any Unicode newline sequence
                     56:   PCRE_NEWLINE_ANYCRLF   Recognize CR, LF, & CRLF as newline sequences
                     57:   PCRE_NEWLINE_CR        Recognize CR as the only newline sequence
                     58:   PCRE_NEWLINE_CRLF      Recognize CRLF as the only newline sequence
                     59:   PCRE_NEWLINE_LF        Recognize LF as the only newline sequence
                     60:   PCRE_NOTBOL            Subject string is not the beginning of a line
                     61:   PCRE_NOTEOL            Subject string is not the end of a line
                     62:   PCRE_NOTEMPTY          An empty string is not a valid match
                     63:   PCRE_NOTEMPTY_ATSTART  An empty string at the start of the subject
                     64:                            is not a valid match
                     65:   PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE Do not do "start-match" optimizations
1.1.1.2 ! misho      66:   PCRE_NO_UTF16_CHECK    Do not check the subject for UTF-16
        !            67:                            validity (only relevant if PCRE_UTF16
        !            68:                            was set at compile time)
1.1       misho      69:   PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK     Do not check the subject for UTF-8
                     70:                            validity (only relevant if PCRE_UTF8
                     71:                            was set at compile time)
                     72:   PCRE_PARTIAL           ) Return PCRE_ERROR_PARTIAL for a partial
                     73:   PCRE_PARTIAL_SOFT      )   match if no full matches are found
                     74:   PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD      Return PCRE_ERROR_PARTIAL for a partial match
                     75:                            if that is found before a full match
                     76: </pre>
                     77: For details of partial matching, see the
                     78: <a href="pcrepartial.html"><b>pcrepartial</b></a>
                     79: page. A <b>pcre_extra</b> structure contains the following fields:
                     80: <pre>
                     81:   <i>flags</i>            Bits indicating which fields are set
1.1.1.2 ! misho      82:   <i>study_data</i>       Opaque data from <b>pcre[16]_study()</b>
1.1       misho      83:   <i>match_limit</i>      Limit on internal resource use
                     84:   <i>match_limit_recursion</i>  Limit on internal recursion depth
                     85:   <i>callout_data</i>     Opaque data passed back to callouts
                     86:   <i>tables</i>           Points to character tables or is NULL
                     87:   <i>mark</i>             For passing back a *MARK pointer
                     88:   <i>executable_jit</i>   Opaque data from JIT compilation
                     89: </pre>
                     90: The flag bits are PCRE_EXTRA_STUDY_DATA, PCRE_EXTRA_MATCH_LIMIT,
                     91: PCRE_EXTRA_MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION, PCRE_EXTRA_CALLOUT_DATA,
                     92: PCRE_EXTRA_TABLES, PCRE_EXTRA_MARK and PCRE_EXTRA_EXECUTABLE_JIT.
                     93: </P>
                     94: <P>
                     95: There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the
                     96: <a href="pcreapi.html"><b>pcreapi</b></a>
                     97: page and a description of the POSIX API in the
                     98: <a href="pcreposix.html"><b>pcreposix</b></a>
                     99: page.
                    100: <p>
                    101: Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>.
                    102: </p>

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