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NAME

6       PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
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SYNOPSIS

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10       #include <pcre.h>
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12       pcre *pcre_compile2(const char *pattern, int options,
13            int *errorcodeptr,
14            const char **errptr, int *erroffset,
15            const unsigned char *tableptr);
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17       pcre16 *pcre16_compile2(PCRE_SPTR16 pattern, int options,
18            int *errorcodeptr,
19            const char **errptr, int *erroffset,
20            const unsigned char *tableptr);
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22       pcre32 *pcre32_compile2(PCRE_SPTR32 pattern, int options,
23            int *errorcodeptr
24            const char **errptr, int *erroffset,
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DESCRIPTION

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29       This  function  compiles a regular expression into an internal form. It
30       is the same as pcre[16|32]_compile(), except for the  addition  of  the
31       errorcodeptr argument. The arguments are:
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33         pattern       A zero-terminated string containing the
34                         regular expression to be compiled
35         options       Zero or more option bits
36         errorcodeptr  Where to put an error code
37         errptr        Where to put an error message
38         erroffset     Offset in pattern where error was found
39         tableptr      Pointer to character tables, or NULL to
40                         use the built-in default
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42       The option bits are:
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44         PCRE_ANCHORED           Force pattern anchoring
45         PCRE_AUTO_CALLOUT       Compile automatic callouts
46         PCRE_BSR_ANYCRLF        \R matches only CR, LF, or CRLF
47         PCRE_BSR_UNICODE        \R matches all Unicode line endings
48         PCRE_CASELESS           Do caseless matching
49         PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY     $ not to match newline at end
50         PCRE_DOTALL             . matches anything including NL
51         PCRE_DUPNAMES           Allow duplicate names for subpatterns
52         PCRE_EXTENDED           Ignore white space and # comments
53         PCRE_EXTRA              PCRE extra features
54                                   (not much use currently)
55         PCRE_FIRSTLINE          Force matching to be before newline
56         PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT  JavaScript compatibility
57         PCRE_MULTILINE          ^ and $ match newlines within data
58         PCRE_NEVER_UTF          Lock out UTF, e.g. via (*UTF)
59         PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY        Recognize any Unicode newline sequence
60         PCRE_NEWLINE_ANYCRLF    Recognize CR, LF, and CRLF as newline
61                                   sequences
62         PCRE_NEWLINE_CR         Set CR as the newline sequence
63         PCRE_NEWLINE_CRLF       Set CRLF as the newline sequence
64         PCRE_NEWLINE_LF         Set LF as the newline sequence
65         PCRE_NO_AUTO_CAPTURE    Disable numbered capturing paren-
66                                   theses (named ones available)
67         PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS    Disable auto-possessification
68         PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE  Disable match-time start optimizations
69         PCRE_NO_UTF16_CHECK     Do not check the pattern for UTF-16
70                                   validity (only relevant if
71                                   PCRE_UTF16 is set)
72         PCRE_NO_UTF32_CHECK     Do not check the pattern for UTF-32
73                                   validity (only relevant if
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75         PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK      Do not check the pattern for UTF-8
76                                   validity (only relevant if
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78         PCRE_UCP                Use Unicode properties for \d, \w, etc.
79         PCRE_UNGREEDY           Invert greediness of quantifiers
80         PCRE_UTF16              Run pcre16_compile() in UTF-16 mode
81         PCRE_UTF32              Run pcre32_compile() in UTF-32 mode
82         PCRE_UTF8               Run pcre_compile() in UTF-8 mode
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84       PCRE must be built with UTF support in order to use PCRE_UTF8/16/32 and
85       PCRE_NO_UTF8/16/32_CHECK, and with UCP support if PCRE_UCP is used.
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87       The yield of the function is a pointer to a private data structure that
88       contains  the  compiled pattern, or NULL if an error was detected. Note
89       that compiling regular expressions with one version  of  PCRE  for  use
90       with  a  different  version  is  not  guaranteed  to work and may cause
91       crashes.
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93       There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in  the  pcreapi
94       page and a description of the POSIX API in the pcreposix page.
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98PCRE 8.34                       01 October 2013               PCRE_COMPILE2(3)
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