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6 PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)
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10 #include <pcre2.h>
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12 int pcre2_substring_length_bynumber(pcre2_match_data *match_data,
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17 This function returns the length of a matched substring, identified by
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20 match_data The match data block for the match
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