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When the HTML documents are built from the man 4 page versions, the entire doc/html directory is emptied, this file is then 5 copied into doc/html/index.html, and the remaining files therein are 6 created by the 132html script. 7 --> 8 <head> 9 <title>PCRE specification</title> 10 </head> 11 <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#3399FF" vlink="#2222BB"> 12 <h1>Perl-compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE)</h1> 13 <p> 14 The HTML documentation for PCRE comprises the following pages: 15 </p> 16 17 <table> 18 <tr><td><a href="pcre.html">pcre</a></td> 19 <td> Introductory page</td></tr> 20 21 <tr><td><a href="pcre-config.html">pcre-config</a></td> 22 <td> Information about the installation configuration</td></tr> 23 24 <tr><td><a href="pcreapi.html">pcreapi</a></td> 25 <td> PCRE's native API</td></tr> 26 27 <tr><td><a href="pcrebuild.html">pcrebuild</a></td> 28 <td> Options for building PCRE</td></tr> 29 30 <tr><td><a href="pcrecallout.html">pcrecallout</a></td> 31 <td> The <i>callout</i> facility</td></tr> 32 33 <tr><td><a href="pcrecompat.html">pcrecompat</a></td> 34 <td> Compability with Perl</td></tr> 35 36 <tr><td><a href="pcrecpp.html">pcrecpp</a></td> 37 <td> The C++ wrapper for the PCRE library</td></tr> 38 39 <tr><td><a href="pcredemo.html">pcredemo</a></td> 40 <td> A demonstration C program that uses the PCRE library</td></tr> 41 42 <tr><td><a href="pcregrep.html">pcregrep</a></td> 43 <td> The <b>pcregrep</b> command</td></tr> 44 45 <tr><td><a href="pcrematching.html">pcrematching</a></td> 46 <td> Discussion of the two matching algorithms</td></tr> 47 48 <tr><td><a href="pcrepartial.html">pcrepartial</a></td> 49 <td> Using PCRE for partial matching</td></tr> 50 51 <tr><td><a href="pcrepattern.html">pcrepattern</a></td> 52 <td> Specification of the regular expressions supported by PCRE</td></tr> 53 54 <tr><td><a href="pcreperform.html">pcreperform</a></td> 55 <td> Some comments on performance</td></tr> 56 57 <tr><td><a href="pcreposix.html">pcreposix</a></td> 58 <td> The POSIX API to the PCRE library</td></tr> 59 60 <tr><td><a href="pcreprecompile.html">pcreprecompile</a></td> 61 <td> How to save and re-use compiled patterns</td></tr> 62 63 <tr><td><a href="pcresample.html">pcresample</a></td> 64 <td> Discussion of the pcredemo program</td></tr> 65 66 <tr><td><a href="pcrestack.html">pcrestack</a></td> 67 <td> Discussion of PCRE's stack usage</td></tr> 68 69 <tr><td><a href="pcresyntax.html">pcresyntax</a></td> 70 <td> Syntax quick-reference summary</td></tr> 71 72 <tr><td><a href="pcretest.html">pcretest</a></td> 73 <td> The <b>pcretest</b> command for testing PCRE</td></tr> 74 </table> 75 76 <p> 77 There are also individual pages that summarize the interface for each function 78 in the library: 79 </p> 80 81 <table> 82 83 <tr><td><a href="pcre_compile.html">pcre_compile</a></td> 84 <td> Compile a regular expression</td></tr> 85 86 <tr><td><a href="pcre_compile2.html">pcre_compile2</a></td> 87 <td> Compile a regular expression (alternate interface)</td></tr> 88 89 <tr><td><a href="pcre_config.html">pcre_config</a></td> 90 <td> Show build-time configuration options</td></tr> 91 92 <tr><td><a href="pcre_copy_named_substring.html">pcre_copy_named_substring</a></td> 93 <td> Extract named substring into given buffer</td></tr> 94 95 <tr><td><a href="pcre_copy_substring.html">pcre_copy_substring</a></td> 96 <td> Extract numbered substring into given buffer</td></tr> 97 98 <tr><td><a href="pcre_dfa_exec.html">pcre_dfa_exec</a></td> 99 <td> Match a compiled pattern to a subject string 100 (DFA algorithm; <i>not</i> Perl compatible)</td></tr> 101 102 <tr><td><a href="pcre_exec.html">pcre_exec</a></td> 103 <td> Match a compiled pattern to a subject string 104 (Perl compatible)</td></tr> 105 106 <tr><td><a href="pcre_free_substring.html">pcre_free_substring</a></td> 107 <td> Free extracted substring</td></tr> 108 109 <tr><td><a href="pcre_free_substring_list.html">pcre_free_substring_list</a></td> 110 <td> Free list of extracted substrings</td></tr> 111 112 <tr><td><a href="pcre_fullinfo.html">pcre_fullinfo</a></td> 113 <td> Extract information about a pattern</td></tr> 114 115 <tr><td><a href="pcre_get_named_substring.html">pcre_get_named_substring</a></td> 116 <td> Extract named substring into new memory</td></tr> 117 118 <tr><td><a href="pcre_get_stringnumber.html">pcre_get_stringnumber</a></td> 119 <td> Convert captured string name to number</td></tr> 120 121 <tr><td><a href="pcre_get_substring.html">pcre_get_substring</a></td> 122 <td> Extract numbered substring into new memory</td></tr> 123 124 <tr><td><a href="pcre_get_substring_list.html">pcre_get_substring_list</a></td> 125 <td> Extract all substrings into new memory</td></tr> 126 127 <tr><td><a href="pcre_info.html">pcre_info</a></td> 128 <td> Obsolete information extraction function</td></tr> 129 130 <tr><td><a href="pcre_maketables.html">pcre_maketables</a></td> 131 <td> Build character tables in current locale</td></tr> 132 133 <tr><td><a href="pcre_refcount.html">pcre_refcount</a></td> 134 <td> Maintain reference count in compiled pattern</td></tr> 135 136 <tr><td><a href="pcre_study.html">pcre_study</a></td> 137 <td> Study a compiled pattern</td></tr> 138 139 <tr><td><a href="pcre_version.html">pcre_version</a></td> 140 <td> Return PCRE version and release date</td></tr> 141 </table> 142 143 </html> 144
