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PCRE2_GET_STARTCHAR(3)  Library Functions Manual  PCRE2_GET_STARTCHAR(3)

NAME top

       PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)

SYNOPSIS top


       #include <pcre2.h>

       PCRE2_SIZE pcre2_get_startchar(pcre2_match_data *match_data);

DESCRIPTION top


       After a successful call of pcre2_match() that was passed the
       match block that is this function's argument, this function
       returns the code unit offset of the character at which the
       successful match started. For a non-partial match, this can be
       different to the value of ovector[0] if the pattern contains the
       \K escape sequence. After a partial match, however, this value is
       always the same as ovector[0] because \K does not affect the
       result of a partial match.

       There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the
       pcre2api page and a description of the POSIX API in the
       pcre2posix page.

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PCRE2 10.00                  24 October 2014      PCRE2_GET_STARTCHAR(3)