PCRE2_SE...EST_LIMIT(3) Library Functions ManualPCRE2_SE...EST_LIMIT(3)PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)
#include <pcre2.h>int pcre2_set_parens_nest_limit(pcre2_compile_context *ccontext,uint32_tvalue);
This function sets, in a compile context, the maximum depth of nested parentheses in a pattern. The result is always zero. There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in thepcre2apipage and a description of the POSIX API in thepcre2posix page.
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