PCRE(3)                                                 PCRE(3)





NAME
       PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcre.h>

       int pcre_get_named_substring(const pcre *code,
            const char *subject, int *ovector,
            int stringcount, const char *stringname,
            const char **stringptr);

DESCRIPTION

       This is a convenience function for extracting a captured
       substring by name. The arguments are:

         code          Compiled pattern
         subject        Subject  that  has  been   successfully
       matched
         ovector       Offset vector that pcre_exec() used
         stringcount   Value returned by pcre_exec()
         stringname    Name of the required substring
         stringptr     Where to put the string pointer

       The  memory in which the substring is placed is obtained
       by calling pcre_malloc(). The yield of the  function  is
       the length of the extracted substring, PCRE_ERROR_NOMEM-
       ORY if sufficient  memory  could  not  be  obtained,  or
       PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING if the string name is invalid.

       There  is  a complete description of the PCRE native API
       in the pcreapi page and a description of the  POSIX  API
       in the pcreposix page.



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