PCRE_GET_STRINGNUMBER 3 "13 January 2012" "PCRE 8.30"
NAME
PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
SYNOPSIS
.rs
#include <pcre.h> int pcre_get_stringnumber(const pcre *code, const char *name);
int pcre16_get_stringnumber(const pcre16 *code, PCRE_SPTR16 name); .
DESCRIPTION
.rs
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. When duplicate names are allowed
(PCRE_DUPNAMES is set), it is not defined which of the numbers is returned by
pcre[16]_get_stringnumber(). You can obtain the complete list by calling
pcre[16]_get_stringtable_entries().
There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the
HREF
pcreapi
page and a description of the POSIX API in the
HREF
pcreposix
page.