pcre2_compile

PCRE2_COMPILE(3)           Library Functions Manual           PCRE2_COMPILE(3)

NAME
       PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcre2.h>

       pcre2_code *pcre2_compile(PCRE2_SPTR pattern, PCRE2_SIZE length,
         uint32_t options, int *errorcode, PCRE2_SIZE *erroroffset,
         pcre2_compile_context *ccontext);

DESCRIPTION

       This  function  compiles  a regular expression pattern into an internal
       form. Its arguments are:

         pattern       A string containing expression to be compiled
         length        The length of the string or PCRE2_ZERO_TERMINATED
         options       Option bits
         errorcode     Where to put an error code
         erroffset     Where to put an error offset
         ccontext      Pointer to a compile context or NULL

       The length of the pattern and any error offset that is returned are  in
       code  units,  not  characters.  A compile context is needed only if you
       want to provide custom memory allocation functions, or  to  provide  an
       external  function  for system stack size checking, or to change one or
       more of these parameters:

         What \R matches (Unicode newlines, or CR, LF, CRLF only);
         PCRE2's character tables;
         The newline character sequence;
         The compile time nested parentheses limit;
         The maximum pattern length (in code units) that is allowed.
         The additional options bits (see pcre2_set_compile_extra_options())

       The option bits are:

         PCRE2_ANCHORED           Force pattern anchoring
         PCRE2_ALLOW_EMPTY_CLASS  Allow empty classes
         PCRE2_ALT_BSUX           Alternative handling of \u, \U, and \x
         PCRE2_ALT_CIRCUMFLEX     Alternative handling of ^ in multiline mode
         PCRE2_ALT_VERBNAMES      Process backslashes in verb names
         PCRE2_AUTO_CALLOUT       Compile automatic callouts
         PCRE2_CASELESS           Do caseless matching
         PCRE2_DOLLAR_ENDONLY     $ not to match newline at end
         PCRE2_DOTALL             . matches anything including NL
         PCRE2_DUPNAMES           Allow duplicate names for subpatterns
         PCRE2_ENDANCHORED        Pattern can match only at end of subject
         PCRE2_EXTENDED           Ignore white space and # comments
         PCRE2_FIRSTLINE          Force matching to be before newline
         PCRE2_LITERAL            Pattern characters are all literal
         PCRE2_MATCH_INVALID_UTF  Enable support for matching invalid UTF
         PCRE2_MATCH_UNSET_BACKREF  Match unset backreferences
         PCRE2_MULTILINE          ^ and $ match newlines within data
         PCRE2_NEVER_BACKSLASH_C  Lock out the use of \C in patterns
         PCRE2_NEVER_UCP          Lock out PCRE2_UCP, e.g. via (*UCP)
         PCRE2_NEVER_UTF          Lock out PCRE2_UTF, e.g. via (*UTF)
         PCRE2_NO_AUTO_CAPTURE    Disable numbered capturing paren-
                                   theses (named ones available)
         PCRE2_NO_AUTO_POSSESS    Disable auto-possessification
         PCRE2_NO_DOTSTAR_ANCHOR  Disable automatic anchoring for .*
         PCRE2_NO_START_OPTIMIZE  Disable match-time start optimizations
         PCRE2_NO_UTF_CHECK       Do not check the pattern for UTF validity
                                    (only relevant if PCRE2_UTF is set)
         PCRE2_UCP                Use Unicode properties for \d, \w, etc.
         PCRE2_UNGREEDY           Invert greediness of quantifiers
         PCRE2_USE_OFFSET_LIMIT   Enable offset limit for unanchored matching
         PCRE2_UTF                Treat pattern and subjects as UTF strings

       PCRE2 must be built with Unicode support (the default) in order to  use
       PCRE2_UTF, PCRE2_UCP and related options.

       Additional   options  may  be  set  in  the  compile  context  via  the
       pcre2_set_compile_extra_options function.

       The yield of this 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 PCRE2 native API, with more de-
       tail on each option, in the pcre2api page, and  a  description  of  the
       POSIX API in the pcre2posix page.

PCRE2 10.34                       23 May 2019                 PCRE2_COMPILE(3)