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12: <h1>Perl-compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE)</h1>
13: <p>
14: The HTML documentation for PCRE consists of a number of pages that are listed
15: below in alphabetical order. If you are new to PCRE, please read the first one
16: first.
17: </p>
18:
19: <table>
20: <tr><td><a href="pcre.html">pcre</a></td>
21: <td> Introductory page</td></tr>
22:
23: <tr><td><a href="pcre-config.html">pcre-config</a></td>
24: <td> Information about the installation configuration</td></tr>
25:
26: <tr><td><a href="pcre16.html">pcre16</a></td>
27: <td> Discussion of the 16-bit PCRE library</td></tr>
28:
29: <tr><td><a href="pcre32.html">pcre32</a></td>
30: <td> Discussion of the 32-bit PCRE library</td></tr>
31:
32: <tr><td><a href="pcreapi.html">pcreapi</a></td>
33: <td> PCRE's native API</td></tr>
34:
35: <tr><td><a href="pcrebuild.html">pcrebuild</a></td>
36: <td> Building PCRE</td></tr>
37:
38: <tr><td><a href="pcrecallout.html">pcrecallout</a></td>
39: <td> The <i>callout</i> facility</td></tr>
40:
41: <tr><td><a href="pcrecompat.html">pcrecompat</a></td>
42: <td> Compability with Perl</td></tr>
43:
44: <tr><td><a href="pcrecpp.html">pcrecpp</a></td>
45: <td> The C++ wrapper for the PCRE library</td></tr>
46:
47: <tr><td><a href="pcredemo.html">pcredemo</a></td>
48: <td> A demonstration C program that uses the PCRE library</td></tr>
49:
50: <tr><td><a href="pcregrep.html">pcregrep</a></td>
51: <td> The <b>pcregrep</b> command</td></tr>
52:
53: <tr><td><a href="pcrejit.html">pcrejit</a></td>
54: <td> Discussion of the just-in-time optimization support</td></tr>
55:
56: <tr><td><a href="pcrelimits.html">pcrelimits</a></td>
57: <td> Details of size and other limits</td></tr>
58:
59: <tr><td><a href="pcrematching.html">pcrematching</a></td>
60: <td> Discussion of the two matching algorithms</td></tr>
61:
62: <tr><td><a href="pcrepartial.html">pcrepartial</a></td>
63: <td> Using PCRE for partial matching</td></tr>
64:
65: <tr><td><a href="pcrepattern.html">pcrepattern</a></td>
66: <td> Specification of the regular expressions supported by PCRE</td></tr>
67:
68: <tr><td><a href="pcreperform.html">pcreperform</a></td>
69: <td> Some comments on performance</td></tr>
70:
71: <tr><td><a href="pcreposix.html">pcreposix</a></td>
72: <td> The POSIX API to the PCRE 8-bit library</td></tr>
73:
74: <tr><td><a href="pcreprecompile.html">pcreprecompile</a></td>
75: <td> How to save and re-use compiled patterns</td></tr>
76:
77: <tr><td><a href="pcresample.html">pcresample</a></td>
78: <td> Discussion of the pcredemo program</td></tr>
79:
80: <tr><td><a href="pcrestack.html">pcrestack</a></td>
81: <td> Discussion of PCRE's stack usage</td></tr>
82:
83: <tr><td><a href="pcresyntax.html">pcresyntax</a></td>
84: <td> Syntax quick-reference summary</td></tr>
85:
86: <tr><td><a href="pcretest.html">pcretest</a></td>
87: <td> The <b>pcretest</b> command for testing PCRE</td></tr>
88:
89: <tr><td><a href="pcreunicode.html">pcreunicode</a></td>
90: <td> Discussion of Unicode and UTF-8/UTF-16/UTF-32 support</td></tr>
91: </table>
92:
93: <p>
94: There are also individual pages that summarize the interface for each function
95: in the library. There is a single page for each triple of 8-bit/16-bit/32-bit
96: functions.
97: </p>
98:
99: <table>
100:
101: <tr><td><a href="pcre_assign_jit_stack.html">pcre_assign_jit_stack</a></td>
102: <td> Assign stack for JIT matching</td></tr>
103:
104: <tr><td><a href="pcre_compile.html">pcre_compile</a></td>
105: <td> Compile a regular expression</td></tr>
106:
107: <tr><td><a href="pcre_compile2.html">pcre_compile2</a></td>
108: <td> Compile a regular expression (alternate interface)</td></tr>
109:
110: <tr><td><a href="pcre_config.html">pcre_config</a></td>
111: <td> Show build-time configuration options</td></tr>
112:
113: <tr><td><a href="pcre_copy_named_substring.html">pcre_copy_named_substring</a></td>
114: <td> Extract named substring into given buffer</td></tr>
115:
116: <tr><td><a href="pcre_copy_substring.html">pcre_copy_substring</a></td>
117: <td> Extract numbered substring into given buffer</td></tr>
118:
119: <tr><td><a href="pcre_dfa_exec.html">pcre_dfa_exec</a></td>
120: <td> Match a compiled pattern to a subject string
121: (DFA algorithm; <i>not</i> Perl compatible)</td></tr>
122:
123: <tr><td><a href="pcre_exec.html">pcre_exec</a></td>
124: <td> Match a compiled pattern to a subject string
125: (Perl compatible)</td></tr>
126:
127: <tr><td><a href="pcre_free_study.html">pcre_free_study</a></td>
128: <td> Free study data</td></tr>
129:
130: <tr><td><a href="pcre_free_substring.html">pcre_free_substring</a></td>
131: <td> Free extracted substring</td></tr>
132:
133: <tr><td><a href="pcre_free_substring_list.html">pcre_free_substring_list</a></td>
134: <td> Free list of extracted substrings</td></tr>
135:
136: <tr><td><a href="pcre_fullinfo.html">pcre_fullinfo</a></td>
137: <td> Extract information about a pattern</td></tr>
138:
139: <tr><td><a href="pcre_get_named_substring.html">pcre_get_named_substring</a></td>
140: <td> Extract named substring into new memory</td></tr>
141:
142: <tr><td><a href="pcre_get_stringnumber.html">pcre_get_stringnumber</a></td>
143: <td> Convert captured string name to number</td></tr>
144:
145: <tr><td><a href="pcre_get_stringtable_entries.html">pcre_get_stringtable_entries</a></td>
146: <td> Find table entries for given string name</td></tr>
147:
148: <tr><td><a href="pcre_get_substring.html">pcre_get_substring</a></td>
149: <td> Extract numbered substring into new memory</td></tr>
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151: <tr><td><a href="pcre_get_substring_list.html">pcre_get_substring_list</a></td>
152: <td> Extract all substrings into new memory</td></tr>
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154: <tr><td><a href="pcre_jit_exec.html">pcre_jit_exec</a></td>
155: <td> Fast path interface to JIT matching</td></tr>
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157: <tr><td><a href="pcre_jit_stack_alloc.html">pcre_jit_stack_alloc</a></td>
158: <td> Create a stack for JIT matching</td></tr>
159:
160: <tr><td><a href="pcre_jit_stack_free.html">pcre_jit_stack_free</a></td>
161: <td> Free a JIT matching stack</td></tr>
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163: <tr><td><a href="pcre_maketables.html">pcre_maketables</a></td>
164: <td> Build character tables in current locale</td></tr>
165:
166: <tr><td><a href="pcre_pattern_to_host_byte_order.html">pcre_pattern_to_host_byte_order</a></td>
167: <td> Convert compiled pattern to host byte order if necessary</td></tr>
168:
169: <tr><td><a href="pcre_refcount.html">pcre_refcount</a></td>
170: <td> Maintain reference count in compiled pattern</td></tr>
171:
172: <tr><td><a href="pcre_study.html">pcre_study</a></td>
173: <td> Study a compiled pattern</td></tr>
174:
175: <tr><td><a href="pcre_utf16_to_host_byte_order.html">pcre_utf16_to_host_byte_order</a></td>
176: <td> Convert UTF-16 string to host byte order if necessary</td></tr>
177:
178: <tr><td><a href="pcre_utf32_to_host_byte_order.html">pcre_utf32_to_host_byte_order</a></td>
179: <td> Convert UTF-32 string to host byte order if necessary</td></tr>
180:
181: <tr><td><a href="pcre_version.html">pcre_version</a></td>
182: <td> Return PCRE version and release date</td></tr>
183: </table>
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