PCRE_GET_STRINGNUMBER(3)                              PCRE_GET_STRINGNUMBER(3)



NAME
       PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcre.h>

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

DESCRIPTION

       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 parenthe-
       sis if the name is found, or PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING oth-
       erwise.  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.



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