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SYNOPSIS
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DESCRIPTION
-This function compiles a regular expression into an internal form. Its -arguments are: -
-+This function compiles a regular expression into an internal form. It is the +same as pcre_compile2(), except for the absence of the errorcodeptr +argument. Its arguments are:
pattern A zero-terminated string containing the
regular expression to be compiled
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erroffset Offset in pattern where error was found
tableptr Pointer to character tables, or NULL to
use the built-in default
-
-
-+ The option bits are: -
-
PCRE_ANCHORED Force pattern anchoring
+ PCRE_AUTO_CALLOUT Compile automatic callouts
PCRE_CASELESS Do caseless matching
PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY $ not to match newline at end
PCRE_DOTALL . matches anything including NL
+ PCRE_DUPNAMES Allow duplicate names for subpatterns
PCRE_EXTENDED Ignore whitespace and # comments
PCRE_EXTRA PCRE extra features
(not much use currently)
+ PCRE_FIRSTLINE Force matching to be before newline
PCRE_MULTILINE ^ and $ match newlines within data
+ PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY Recognize any Unicode newline sequence
+ PCRE_NEWLINE_CR Set CR as the newline sequence
+ PCRE_NEWLINE_CRLF Set CRLF as the newline sequence
+ PCRE_NEWLINE_LF Set LF as the newline sequence
PCRE_NO_AUTO_CAPTURE Disable numbered capturing paren-
theses (named ones available)
PCRE_UNGREEDY Invert greediness of quantifiers
PCRE_UTF8 Run in UTF-8 mode
-
-
--PCRE must have been compiled with UTF-8 support when PCRE_UTF8 is used. + PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK Do not check the pattern for UTF-8 + validity (only relevant if + PCRE_UTF8 is set) + +PCRE must be built with UTF-8 support in order to use PCRE_UTF8 and +PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK.
The yield of the function is a pointer to a private data structure that contains the compiled pattern, or NULL if an error was detected.
-There is a complete description of the PCRE API in the +There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the pcreapi +page and a description of the POSIX API in the +pcreposix page. +
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