1 <html> 2 <head> 3 <title>pcre_get_stringnumber specification</title> 4 </head> 5 <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#3399FF" vlink="#2222BB"> 6 <h1>pcre_get_stringnumber man page</h1> 7 <p> 8 Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>. 9 </p> 10 <p> 11 This page is part of the PCRE HTML documentation. It was generated automatically 12 from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, please consult the 13 man page, in case the conversion went wrong. 14 <br> 15 <br><b> 16 SYNOPSIS 17 </b><br> 18 <P> 19 <b>#include <pcre.h></b> 20 </P> 21 <P> 22 <b>int pcre_get_stringnumber(const pcre *<i>code</i>,</b> 23 <b>const char *<i>name</i>);</b> 24 </P> 25 <br><b> 26 DESCRIPTION 27 </b><br> 28 <P> 29 This convenience function finds the number of a named substring capturing 30 parenthesis in a compiled pattern. Its arguments are: 31 <pre> 32 <i>code</i> Compiled regular expression 33 <i>name</i> Name whose number is required 34 </pre> 35 The yield of the function is the number of the parenthesis if the name is 36 found, or PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING otherwise. When duplicate names are allowed 37 (PCRE_DUPNAMES is set), it is not defined which of the numbers is returned by 38 <b>pcre_get_stringnumber()</b>. You can obtain the complete list by calling 39 <b>pcre_get_stringtable_entries()</b>. 40 </P> 41 <P> 42 There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the 43 <a href="pcreapi.html"><b>pcreapi</b></a> 44 page and a description of the POSIX API in the 45 <a href="pcreposix.html"><b>pcreposix</b></a> 46 page. 47 <p> 48 Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>. 49 </p> 50
