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PCRE_GET_NAMED_SUBSTRING(3) FreeBSD Library Functions Manual
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);
int pcre16_get_named_substring(const pcre16 *code, PCRE_SPTR16 subject, int *ovector, int stringcount, PCRE_SPTR16 stringname, PCRE_SPTR16 *stringptr);
int pcre32_get_named_substring(const pcre32 *code, PCRE_SPTR32 subject, int *ovector, int stringcount, PCRE_SPTR32 stringname, PCRE_SPTR32 *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[16|32]_exec() used stringcount Value returned by pcre[16|32]_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[16|32]_malloc(). The convenience function pcre[16|32]_free_substring() can be used to free it when it is no longer needed. The yield of the function is the length of the extracted substring, PCRE_ERROR_NOMEMORY 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.
PCRE 8.30 24 June 2012 PCRE_GET_NAMED_SUBSTRING(3)