PCRE_COPY_SUBSTRING 3
NAME
PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
SYNOPSIS
.rs
#include <pcre.h>
int pcre_copy_substring(const char *subject, int *ovector, int stringcount, int stringnumber, char *buffer, int buffersize); .
DESCRIPTION
.rs
This is a convenience function for extracting a captured substring into a given
buffer. The arguments are:
subject Subject that has been successfully matched
ovector Offset vector that
pcre_exec() used
stringcount Value returned by
pcre_exec()
stringnumber Number of the required substring
buffer Buffer to receive the string
buffersize Size of buffer
The yield is the length of the string, PCRE_ERROR_NOMEMORY if the buffer was
too small, or PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING if the string number is invalid.
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.