.TH PCRE_GET_NAMED_SUBSTRING 3

.SH NAME

PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

.SH SYNOPSIS

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.B #include <pcre.h>

.PP

.SM

.B int pcre_get_named_substring(const pcre *\fIcode\fP,

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.B const char *\fIsubject\fP, int *\fIovector\fP,

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.B int \fIstringcount\fP, const char *\fIstringname\fP,

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.B const char **\fIstringptr\fP);

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.SH DESCRIPTION

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This is a convenience function for extracting a captured substring by name. The

arguments are:

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  \fIcode\fP          Compiled pattern

  \fIsubject\fP       Subject that has been successfully matched

  \fIovector\fP       Offset vector that \fBpcre_exec()\fP used

  \fIstringcount\fP   Value returned by \fBpcre_exec()\fP

  \fIstringname\fP    Name of the required substring

  \fIstringptr\fP     Where to put the string pointer

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The memory in which the substring is placed is obtained by calling

\fBpcre_malloc()\fP. The convenience function \fBpcre_free_substring()\fP can

be used to free it when it is no longer needed. The yield of the function is

the length of the extracted substring, PCRE_ERROR_NOMEMORY if sufficient memory

could not be obtained, or PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING if the string name is invalid.

.P

There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the

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page and a description of the POSIX API in the

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\fBpcreposix\fP

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page.