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Introduction to Library Functions                PCRE_FULLINFO(3)



NAME
     PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

SYNOPSIS

     #include 

     int pcre_fullinfo(const pcre *code, const pcre_extra *extra,
          int what, void *where);

DESCRIPTION

     This function returns information about a compiled  pattern.
     Its arguments are:

       code                      Compiled regular expression
       extra                     Result of pcre_study() or NULL
       what                      What information is required
       where                     Where to put the information

     The following information is available:

       PCRE_INFO_BACKREFMAX      Number of highest back reference
       PCRE_INFO_CAPTURECOUNT    Number of capturing subpatterns
       PCRE_INFO_DEFAULT_TABLES  Pointer to default tables
       PCRE_INFO_FIRSTBYTE       Fixed first byte for a match, or
                                   -1 for start of string
                                      or after newline, or
                                   -2 otherwise
       PCRE_INFO_FIRSTTABLE       Table  of  first  bytes  (after
     studying)
       PCRE_INFO_JCHANGED        Return 1 if (?J)  or  (?-J)  was
     used
       PCRE_INFO_LASTLITERAL     Literal last byte required
       PCRE_INFO_NAMECOUNT       Number of named subpatterns
       PCRE_INFO_NAMEENTRYSIZE   Size of name table entry
       PCRE_INFO_NAMETABLE       Pointer to name table
       PCRE_INFO_OKPARTIAL       Return 1 if partial matching can
     be tried
       PCRE_INFO_OPTIONS         Option bits used for compilation
       PCRE_INFO_SIZE            Size of compiled pattern
       PCRE_INFO_STUDYSIZE       Size of study data

     The yield of the function is zero on success or:

       PCRE_ERROR_NULL           the argument code was NULL
                                 the argument where was NULL
       PCRE_ERROR_BADMAGIC       the "magic number" was not found
       PCRE_ERROR_BADOPTION      the value of what was invalid

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



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Introduction to Library Functions                PCRE_FULLINFO(3)



     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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