PCRE(3)                                                   PCRE(3)



NAME
       PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

SYNOPSIS

       #include 

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


DESCRIPTION

       This convenience function finds the number of a named sub-
       string 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.

       There  is  a  complete  description of the PCRE API in the
       pcreapi page.



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