1PCRE_GET_STRINGNUMBER(3) Library Functions Manual PCRE_GET_STRINGNUMBER(3)
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6 PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
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10 #include <pcre.h>
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12 int pcre_get_stringnumber(const pcre *code,
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17 This convenience function finds the number of a named substring capturā
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29 There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the pcreapi
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