pcre2_get_startchar(3) — Linux manual page
PCRE2_GET_STARTCHAR(3) Library Functions Manual PCRE2_GET_STARTCHAR(3)
NAME
PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)
SYNOPSIS
#include <pcre2.h>
PCRE2_SIZE pcre2_get_startchar(pcre2_match_data *match_data);
DESCRIPTION
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.
COLOPHON
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