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PCRE2_SU...TH_BYNAME(3) Library Functions ManualPCRE2_SU...TH_BYNAME(3)PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)
#include <pcre2.h>int pcre2_substring_length_byname(pcre2_match_data *match_data,PCRE2_SPTRname, PCRE2_SIZE *length);
This function returns the length of a matched substring, identified by name. The arguments are:match_data The match data block for the matchname The substring namelength Where to return the length The yield is zero on success, or an error code if the substring is not found. There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in thepcre2apipage and a description of the POSIX API in thepcre2posix page.
This page is part of thePCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) project. Information about the project can be found at ⟨http://www.pcre.org/⟩. If you have a bug report for this manual page, see ⟨http://bugs.exim.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=PCRE⟩. This page was obtained from the tarball fetched from ⟨https://github.com/PhilipHazel/pcre2.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON (which isnot part of the original manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.orgPCRE2 10.46-DEV 21 October 2014PCRE2_SU...TH_BYNAME(3)HTML rendering created 2025-09-06 byMichael Kerrisk, author ofThe Linux Programming Interface. For details of in-depthLinux/UNIX system programming training courses that I teach, lookhere. Hosting byjambit GmbH. | |