1<html> 2<head> 3<title>pcre_copy_named_substring specification</title> 4</head> 5<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#3399FF" vlink="#2222BB"> 6<h1>pcre_copy_named_substring man page</h1> 7<p> 8Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>. 9</p> 10<p> 11This page is part of the PCRE HTML documentation. It was generated automatically 12from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, please consult the 13man page, in case the conversion went wrong. 14<br> 15<br><b> 16SYNOPSIS 17</b><br> 18<P> 19<b>#include <pcre.h></b> 20</P> 21<P> 22<b>int pcre_copy_named_substring(const pcre *<i>code</i>,</b> 23<b>const char *<i>subject</i>, int *<i>ovector</i>,</b> 24<b>int <i>stringcount</i>, const char *<i>stringname</i>,</b> 25<b>char *<i>buffer</i>, int <i>buffersize</i>);</b> 26</P> 27<br><b> 28DESCRIPTION 29</b><br> 30<P> 31This is a convenience function for extracting a captured substring, identified 32by name, into a given buffer. The arguments are: 33<pre> 34 <i>code</i> Pattern that was successfully matched 35 <i>subject</i> Subject that has been successfully matched 36 <i>ovector</i> Offset vector that <b>pcre_exec()</b> used 37 <i>stringcount</i> Value returned by <b>pcre_exec()</b> 38 <i>stringname</i> Name of the required substring 39 <i>buffer</i> Buffer to receive the string 40 <i>buffersize</i> Size of buffer 41</pre> 42The yield is the length of the substring, PCRE_ERROR_NOMEMORY if the buffer was 43too small, or PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING if the string name is invalid. 44</P> 45<P> 46There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the 47<a href="pcreapi.html"><b>pcreapi</b></a> 48page and a description of the POSIX API in the 49<a href="pcreposix.html"><b>pcreposix</b></a> 50page. 51<p> 52Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>. 53</p> 54