1 <html> 2 <head> 3 <title>pcre2_substring_nametable_scan specification</title> 4 </head> 5 <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#3399FF" vlink="#2222BB"> 6 <h1>pcre2_substring_nametable_scan man page</h1> 7 <p> 8 Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE2 index page</a>. 9 </p> 10 <p> 11 This page is part of the PCRE2 HTML documentation. It was generated 12 automatically from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, 13 please consult the man page, in case the conversion went wrong. 14 <br> 15 <br><b> 16 SYNOPSIS 17 </b><br> 18 <P> 19 <b>#include <pcre2.h></b> 20 </P> 21 <P> 22 <b>int pcre2_substring_nametable_scan(const pcre2_code *<i>code</i>,</b> 23 <b> PCRE2_SPTR <i>name</i>, PCRE2_SPTR *<i>first</i>, PCRE2_SPTR *<i>last</i>);</b> 24 </P> 25 <br><b> 26 DESCRIPTION 27 </b><br> 28 <P> 29 This convenience function finds, for a compiled pattern, the first and last 30 entries for a given name in the table that translates capturing parenthesis 31 names into numbers. 32 <pre> 33 <i>code</i> Compiled regular expression 34 <i>name</i> Name whose entries required 35 <i>first</i> Where to return a pointer to the first entry 36 <i>last</i> Where to return a pointer to the last entry 37 </pre> 38 When the name is found in the table, if <i>first</i> is NULL, the function 39 returns a group number, but if there is more than one matching entry, it is not 40 defined which one. Otherwise, when both pointers have been set, the yield of 41 the function is the length of each entry in code units. If the name is not 42 found, PCRE2_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING is returned. 43 </P> 44 <P> 45 There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API, including the format of 46 the table entries, in the 47 <a href="pcre2api.html"><b>pcre2api</b></a> 48 page, and a description of the POSIX API in the 49 <a href="pcre2posix.html"><b>pcre2posix</b></a> 50 page. 51 <p> 52 Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE2 index page</a>. 53 </p> 54
