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Solaris  - PCRE_GET_STRINGNUMBER (3)

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PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

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Synopsis
Description
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--> #include <pcre.h>

int pcre_get_stringnumber(const pcre *code,     const char *name);

This convenience function finds the number of a named substring capturing parenthesis in a compiled pattern. Its arguments are:

code Compiled regular expression
name Name whose number is required

The yield of the function is the number of the parenthesis if the name is found, or PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING otherwise. When duplicate names are allowed (PCRE_DUPNAMES is set), it is not defined which of the numbers is returned by pcre_get_stringnumber(). You can obtain the complete list by calling pcre_get_stringtable_entries().

There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the pcreapi page and a description of the POSIX API in the pcreposix page.

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWpcre
Interface Stability	Uncommitted

Source for PCRE is available on http://opensolaris.org.

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