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PCRE2_GEN...TEXT_COPY(3) Library Functions ManualPCRE2_GEN...TEXT_COPY(3)PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)
#include <pcre2.h>pcre2_general_context *pcre2_general_context_copy(pcre2_general_context *gcontext);
This function makes a new copy of a general context, using the memory allocation functions in the context, if set, to get the necessary memory. Otherwisemalloc()is used. The result is NULL if the memory cannot be obtained. 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 25 October 2014PCRE2_GEN...TEXT_COPY(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. | |