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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 10.46-DEV              25 October 2014       PCRE2_GET_STARTCHAR(3)