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 <br> 25 <br> 26 <b>int pcre16_get_stringnumber(const pcre16 *<i>code</i>,</b> 27 <b> PCRE_SPTR16 <i>name</i>);</b> 28 <br> 29 <br> 30 <b>int pcre32_get_stringnumber(const pcre32 *<i>code</i>,</b> 31 <b> PCRE_SPTR32 <i>name</i>);</b> 32 </P> 33 <br><b> 34 DESCRIPTION 35 </b><br> 36 <P> 37 This convenience function finds the number of a named substring capturing 38 parenthesis in a compiled pattern. Its arguments are: 39 <pre> 40 <i>code</i> Compiled regular expression 41 <i>name</i> Name whose number is required 42 </pre> 43 The yield of the function is the number of the parenthesis if the name is 44 found, or PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING otherwise. When duplicate names are allowed 45 (PCRE_DUPNAMES is set), it is not defined which of the numbers is returned by 46 <b>pcre[16|32]_get_stringnumber()</b>. You can obtain the complete list by calling 47 <b>pcre[16|32]_get_stringtable_entries()</b>. 48 </P> 49 <P> 50 There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the 51 <a href="pcreapi.html"><b>pcreapi</b></a> 52 page and a description of the POSIX API in the 53 <a href="pcreposix.html"><b>pcreposix</b></a> 54 page. 55 <p> 56 Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>. 57 </p> 58
