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	pcre_get_stringnumber(3)

PCRE_GET_STRINGNUMBER

NAME

PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

#include <pcre.h>

int pcre_get_stringnumber(const pcre *code,
const char *name);

This convenience function finds the number of a named substring capturing parenthesis in a compiled pattern. Its arguments are:

code Compiled regular expression
name Name whose number is required

The yield of the function is the number of the parenthesis if the name is found, or PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING otherwise.

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_get_stringnumber(3)