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Introduction to Library Functions                 PCRE_COMPILE(3)



NAME
     PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

SYNOPSIS

     #include 

     pcre *pcre_compile(const char *pattern, int options,
          const char **errptr, int *erroffset,
          const unsigned char *tableptr);

DESCRIPTION

     This function compiles a regular expression into an internal
     form.  It  is  the  same  as pcre_compile2(), except for the
     absence of the errorcodeptr argument. Its arguments are:

       pattern       A zero-terminated string containing the
                       regular expression to be compiled
       options       Zero or more option bits
       errptr        Where to put an error message
       erroffset     Offset in pattern where error was found
       tableptr      Pointer to character tables, or NULL to
                       use the built-in default

     The option bits are:

       PCRE_ANCHORED           Force pattern anchoring
       PCRE_AUTO_CALLOUT       Compile automatic callouts
       PCRE_BSR_ANYCRLF        \R matches only CR, LF, or CRLF
       PCRE_BSR_UNICODE        \R matches all Unicode  line  end-
     ings
       PCRE_CASELESS           Do caseless matching
       PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY     $ not to match newline at end
       PCRE_DOTALL             . matches anything including NL
       PCRE_DUPNAMES           Allow duplicate names for  subpat-
     terns
       PCRE_EXTENDED           Ignore whitespace and # comments
       PCRE_EXTRA              PCRE extra features
                                 (not much use currently)
       PCRE_FIRSTLINE          Force matching to be  before  new-
     line
       PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT  JavaScript compatibility
       PCRE_MULTILINE          ^ and $ match newlines within data
       PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY         Recognize  any  Unicode   newline
     sequence
       PCRE_NEWLINE_ANYCRLF    Recognize CR, LF, and CRLF as new-
     line
                                 sequences
       PCRE_NEWLINE_CR         Set CR as the newline sequence
       PCRE_NEWLINE_CRLF       Set CRLF as the newline sequence
       PCRE_NEWLINE_LF         Set LF as the newline sequence



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Introduction to Library Functions                 PCRE_COMPILE(3)



       PCRE_NO_AUTO_CAPTURE    Disable numbered capturing paren-
                                 theses (named ones available)
       PCRE_UNGREEDY           Invert greediness of quantifiers
       PCRE_UTF8               Run in UTF-8 mode
       PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK      Do not check the pattern for UTF-8
                                 validity (only relevant if
                                 PCRE_UTF8 is set)

     PCRE must be built  with  UTF-8  support  in  order  to  use
     PCRE_UTF8 and PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK.

     The yield of the function is a pointer  to  a  private  data
     structure  that contains the compiled pattern, or NULL if an
     error was detected. Note that compiling regular  expressions
     with one version of PCRE for use with a different version is
     not guaranteed to work and may cause crashes.

     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.

ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     _______________________________________
    |   ATTRIBUTE TYPE   |  ATTRIBUTE VALUE|
    |____________________|__________________|_
    | Availability       |  library/pcre   |
    |____________________|__________________|_
    | Interface Stability|  Uncommitted    |
    |____________________|_________________|

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




















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