PCRE2 — Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)
#include <pcre2.h> int pcre2_get_error_message(interrorcode, PCRE2_UCHAR *buffer, PCRE2_SIZEbufflen);
This function provides a textual error message for each PCRE2 error code. Compilation errors are positive numbers; UTF formatting errors and matching errors are negative numbers. The arguments are:
errorcodean error code (positive or negative)bufferwhere to put the messagebufflenthe length of the buffer (code units)
The function returns the length of the message, excluding the trailing zero, or a negative error code if the buffer is too small.
There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the pcre2api(3) page and a description of the POSIX API in the pcre2posix(3) page.
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This manual page is taken from the PCRE library, which is distributed under the BSD license. |