PCRE — Perl-compatible regular expressions
#include <pcre.h>
int
pcre_fullinfo( |
const pcre *code, |
| const pcre_extra *extra, | |
| int what, | |
void *where); |
This function returns information about a compiled pattern. Its arguments are:
codeCompiled regular expressionextraResult ofpcre_study() or NULLwhatWhat information is requiredwhereWhere to put the information
The following information is available:
PCRE_INFO_BACKREFMAX Number of highest back reference
PCRE_INFO_CAPTURECOUNT Number of capturing subpatterns
PCRE_INFO_DEFAULT_TABLES Pointer to default tables
PCRE_INFO_FIRSTBYTE Fixed first byte for a match, or
-1 for start of string
or after newline, or
-2 otherwise
PCRE_INFO_FIRSTTABLE Table of first bytes (after studying)
PCRE_INFO_JCHANGED Return 1 if (?J) or (?-J) was used
PCRE_INFO_LASTLITERAL Literal last byte required
PCRE_INFO_NAMECOUNT Number of named subpatterns
PCRE_INFO_NAMEENTRYSIZE Size of name table entry
PCRE_INFO_NAMETABLE Pointer to name table
PCRE_INFO_OKPARTIAL Return 1 if partial matching can be tried
PCRE_INFO_OPTIONS Option bits used for compilation
PCRE_INFO_SIZE Size of compiled pattern
PCRE_INFO_STUDYSIZE Size of study data
The yield of the function is zero on success or:
PCRE_ERROR_NULL the argumentcodewas NULL the argumentwherewas NULL PCRE_ERROR_BADMAGIC the "magic number" was not found PCRE_ERROR_BADOPTION the value ofwhatwas invalid
There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the pcreapi(3) page and a description of the POSIX API in the pcreposix(3) page.
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This manual page is taken from the PCRE library, which is distributed under the BSD license. |