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1.1 ! misho 1: <html> ! 2: <head> ! 3: <title>pcresample specification</title> ! 4: </head> ! 5: <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#3399FF" vlink="#2222BB"> ! 6: <h1>pcresample 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: PCRE SAMPLE PROGRAM ! 17: </b><br> ! 18: <P> ! 19: A simple, complete demonstration program, to get you started with using PCRE, ! 20: is supplied in the file <i>pcredemo.c</i> in the PCRE distribution. A listing of ! 21: this program is given in the ! 22: <a href="pcredemo.html"><b>pcredemo</b></a> ! 23: documentation. If you do not have a copy of the PCRE distribution, you can save ! 24: this listing to re-create <i>pcredemo.c</i>. ! 25: </P> ! 26: <P> ! 27: The program compiles the regular expression that is its first argument, and ! 28: matches it against the subject string in its second argument. No PCRE options ! 29: are set, and default character tables are used. If matching succeeds, the ! 30: program outputs the portion of the subject that matched, together with the ! 31: contents of any captured substrings. ! 32: </P> ! 33: <P> ! 34: If the -g option is given on the command line, the program then goes on to ! 35: check for further matches of the same regular expression in the same subject ! 36: string. The logic is a little bit tricky because of the possibility of matching ! 37: an empty string. Comments in the code explain what is going on. ! 38: </P> ! 39: <P> ! 40: If PCRE is installed in the standard include and library directories for your ! 41: operating system, you should be able to compile the demonstration program using ! 42: this command: ! 43: <pre> ! 44: gcc -o pcredemo pcredemo.c -lpcre ! 45: </pre> ! 46: If PCRE is installed elsewhere, you may need to add additional options to the ! 47: command line. For example, on a Unix-like system that has PCRE installed in ! 48: <i>/usr/local</i>, you can compile the demonstration program using a command ! 49: like this: ! 50: <pre> ! 51: gcc -o pcredemo -I/usr/local/include pcredemo.c -L/usr/local/lib -lpcre ! 52: </pre> ! 53: In a Windows environment, if you want to statically link the program against a ! 54: non-dll <b>pcre.a</b> file, you must uncomment the line that defines PCRE_STATIC ! 55: before including <b>pcre.h</b>, because otherwise the <b>pcre_malloc()</b> and ! 56: <b>pcre_free()</b> exported functions will be declared ! 57: <b>__declspec(dllimport)</b>, with unwanted results. ! 58: </P> ! 59: <P> ! 60: Once you have compiled and linked the demonstration program, you can run simple ! 61: tests like this: ! 62: <pre> ! 63: ./pcredemo 'cat|dog' 'the cat sat on the mat' ! 64: ./pcredemo -g 'cat|dog' 'the dog sat on the cat' ! 65: </pre> ! 66: Note that there is a much more comprehensive test program, called ! 67: <a href="pcretest.html"><b>pcretest</b>,</a> ! 68: which supports many more facilities for testing regular expressions and the ! 69: PCRE library. The ! 70: <a href="pcredemo.html"><b>pcredemo</b></a> ! 71: program is provided as a simple coding example. ! 72: </P> ! 73: <P> ! 74: If you try to run ! 75: <a href="pcredemo.html"><b>pcredemo</b></a> ! 76: when PCRE is not installed in the standard library directory, you may get an ! 77: error like this on some operating systems (e.g. Solaris): ! 78: <pre> ! 79: ld.so.1: a.out: fatal: libpcre.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory ! 80: </pre> ! 81: This is caused by the way shared library support works on those systems. You ! 82: need to add ! 83: <pre> ! 84: -R/usr/local/lib ! 85: </pre> ! 86: (for example) to the compile command to get round this problem. ! 87: </P> ! 88: <br><b> ! 89: AUTHOR ! 90: </b><br> ! 91: <P> ! 92: Philip Hazel ! 93: <br> ! 94: University Computing Service ! 95: <br> ! 96: Cambridge CB2 3QH, England. ! 97: <br> ! 98: </P> ! 99: <br><b> ! 100: REVISION ! 101: </b><br> ! 102: <P> ! 103: Last updated: 17 November 2010 ! 104: <br> ! 105: Copyright © 1997-2010 University of Cambridge. ! 106: <br> ! 107: <p> ! 108: Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>. ! 109: </p>