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  6. <h1>pcre32 man page</h1>
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  14. <br>
  15. <ul>
  16. <li><a name="TOC1" href="#SEC1">PCRE 32-BIT API BASIC FUNCTIONS</a>
  17. <li><a name="TOC2" href="#SEC2">PCRE 32-BIT API STRING EXTRACTION FUNCTIONS</a>
  18. <li><a name="TOC3" href="#SEC3">PCRE 32-BIT API AUXILIARY FUNCTIONS</a>
  19. <li><a name="TOC4" href="#SEC4">PCRE 32-BIT API INDIRECTED FUNCTIONS</a>
  20. <li><a name="TOC5" href="#SEC5">PCRE 32-BIT API 32-BIT-ONLY FUNCTION</a>
  21. <li><a name="TOC6" href="#SEC6">THE PCRE 32-BIT LIBRARY</a>
  22. <li><a name="TOC7" href="#SEC7">THE HEADER FILE</a>
  23. <li><a name="TOC8" href="#SEC8">THE LIBRARY NAME</a>
  24. <li><a name="TOC9" href="#SEC9">STRING TYPES</a>
  25. <li><a name="TOC10" href="#SEC10">STRUCTURE TYPES</a>
  26. <li><a name="TOC11" href="#SEC11">32-BIT FUNCTIONS</a>
  27. <li><a name="TOC12" href="#SEC12">SUBJECT STRING OFFSETS</a>
  28. <li><a name="TOC13" href="#SEC13">NAMED SUBPATTERNS</a>
  29. <li><a name="TOC14" href="#SEC14">OPTION NAMES</a>
  30. <li><a name="TOC15" href="#SEC15">CHARACTER CODES</a>
  31. <li><a name="TOC16" href="#SEC16">ERROR NAMES</a>
  32. <li><a name="TOC17" href="#SEC17">ERROR TEXTS</a>
  33. <li><a name="TOC18" href="#SEC18">CALLOUTS</a>
  34. <li><a name="TOC19" href="#SEC19">TESTING</a>
  35. <li><a name="TOC20" href="#SEC20">NOT SUPPORTED IN 32-BIT MODE</a>
  36. <li><a name="TOC21" href="#SEC21">AUTHOR</a>
  37. <li><a name="TOC22" href="#SEC22">REVISION</a>
  38. </ul>
  39. <P>
  40. <b>#include &#60;pcre.h&#62;</b>
  41. </P>
  42. <br><a name="SEC1" href="#TOC1">PCRE 32-BIT API BASIC FUNCTIONS</a><br>
  43. <P>
  44. <b>pcre32 *pcre32_compile(PCRE_SPTR32 <i>pattern</i>, int <i>options</i>,</b>
  45. <b> const char **<i>errptr</i>, int *<i>erroffset</i>,</b>
  46. <b> const unsigned char *<i>tableptr</i>);</b>
  47. <br>
  48. <br>
  49. <b>pcre32 *pcre32_compile2(PCRE_SPTR32 <i>pattern</i>, int <i>options</i>,</b>
  50. <b> int *<i>errorcodeptr</i>,</b>
  51. <b> const unsigned char *<i>tableptr</i>);</b>
  52. <br>
  53. <br>
  54. <b>pcre32_extra *pcre32_study(const pcre32 *<i>code</i>, int <i>options</i>,</b>
  55. <b> const char **<i>errptr</i>);</b>
  56. <br>
  57. <br>
  58. <b>void pcre32_free_study(pcre32_extra *<i>extra</i>);</b>
  59. <br>
  60. <br>
  61. <b>int pcre32_exec(const pcre32 *<i>code</i>, const pcre32_extra *<i>extra</i>,</b>
  62. <b> PCRE_SPTR32 <i>subject</i>, int <i>length</i>, int <i>startoffset</i>,</b>
  63. <b> int <i>options</i>, int *<i>ovector</i>, int <i>ovecsize</i>);</b>
  64. <br>
  65. <br>
  66. <b>int pcre32_dfa_exec(const pcre32 *<i>code</i>, const pcre32_extra *<i>extra</i>,</b>
  67. <b> PCRE_SPTR32 <i>subject</i>, int <i>length</i>, int <i>startoffset</i>,</b>
  68. <b> int <i>options</i>, int *<i>ovector</i>, int <i>ovecsize</i>,</b>
  69. <b> int *<i>workspace</i>, int <i>wscount</i>);</b>
  70. </P>
  71. <br><a name="SEC2" href="#TOC1">PCRE 32-BIT API STRING EXTRACTION FUNCTIONS</a><br>
  72. <P>
  73. <b>int pcre32_copy_named_substring(const pcre32 *<i>code</i>,</b>
  74. <b> PCRE_SPTR32 <i>subject</i>, int *<i>ovector</i>,</b>
  75. <b> int <i>stringcount</i>, PCRE_SPTR32 <i>stringname</i>,</b>
  76. <b> PCRE_UCHAR32 *<i>buffer</i>, int <i>buffersize</i>);</b>
  77. <br>
  78. <br>
  79. <b>int pcre32_copy_substring(PCRE_SPTR32 <i>subject</i>, int *<i>ovector</i>,</b>
  80. <b> int <i>stringcount</i>, int <i>stringnumber</i>, PCRE_UCHAR32 *<i>buffer</i>,</b>
  81. <b> int <i>buffersize</i>);</b>
  82. <br>
  83. <br>
  84. <b>int pcre32_get_named_substring(const pcre32 *<i>code</i>,</b>
  85. <b> PCRE_SPTR32 <i>subject</i>, int *<i>ovector</i>,</b>
  86. <b> int <i>stringcount</i>, PCRE_SPTR32 <i>stringname</i>,</b>
  87. <b> PCRE_SPTR32 *<i>stringptr</i>);</b>
  88. <br>
  89. <br>
  90. <b>int pcre32_get_stringnumber(const pcre32 *<i>code</i>,</b>
  91. <b> PCRE_SPTR32 <i>name</i>);</b>
  92. <br>
  93. <br>
  94. <b>int pcre32_get_stringtable_entries(const pcre32 *<i>code</i>,</b>
  95. <b> PCRE_SPTR32 <i>name</i>, PCRE_UCHAR32 **<i>first</i>, PCRE_UCHAR32 **<i>last</i>);</b>
  96. <br>
  97. <br>
  98. <b>int pcre32_get_substring(PCRE_SPTR32 <i>subject</i>, int *<i>ovector</i>,</b>
  99. <b> int <i>stringcount</i>, int <i>stringnumber</i>,</b>
  100. <b> PCRE_SPTR32 *<i>stringptr</i>);</b>
  101. <br>
  102. <br>
  103. <b>int pcre32_get_substring_list(PCRE_SPTR32 <i>subject</i>,</b>
  104. <b> int *<i>ovector</i>, int <i>stringcount</i>, PCRE_SPTR32 **<i>listptr</i>);</b>
  105. <br>
  106. <br>
  107. <b>void pcre32_free_substring(PCRE_SPTR32 <i>stringptr</i>);</b>
  108. <br>
  109. <br>
  110. <b>void pcre32_free_substring_list(PCRE_SPTR32 *<i>stringptr</i>);</b>
  111. </P>
  112. <br><a name="SEC3" href="#TOC1">PCRE 32-BIT API AUXILIARY FUNCTIONS</a><br>
  113. <P>
  114. <b>pcre32_jit_stack *pcre32_jit_stack_alloc(int <i>startsize</i>, int <i>maxsize</i>);</b>
  115. <br>
  116. <br>
  117. <b>void pcre32_jit_stack_free(pcre32_jit_stack *<i>stack</i>);</b>
  118. <br>
  119. <br>
  120. <b>void pcre32_assign_jit_stack(pcre32_extra *<i>extra</i>,</b>
  121. <b> pcre32_jit_callback <i>callback</i>, void *<i>data</i>);</b>
  122. <br>
  123. <br>
  124. <b>const unsigned char *pcre32_maketables(void);</b>
  125. <br>
  126. <br>
  127. <b>int pcre32_fullinfo(const pcre32 *<i>code</i>, const pcre32_extra *<i>extra</i>,</b>
  128. <b> int <i>what</i>, void *<i>where</i>);</b>
  129. <br>
  130. <br>
  131. <b>int pcre32_refcount(pcre32 *<i>code</i>, int <i>adjust</i>);</b>
  132. <br>
  133. <br>
  134. <b>int pcre32_config(int <i>what</i>, void *<i>where</i>);</b>
  135. <br>
  136. <br>
  137. <b>const char *pcre32_version(void);</b>
  138. <br>
  139. <br>
  140. <b>int pcre32_pattern_to_host_byte_order(pcre32 *<i>code</i>,</b>
  141. <b> pcre32_extra *<i>extra</i>, const unsigned char *<i>tables</i>);</b>
  142. </P>
  143. <br><a name="SEC4" href="#TOC1">PCRE 32-BIT API INDIRECTED FUNCTIONS</a><br>
  144. <P>
  145. <b>void *(*pcre32_malloc)(size_t);</b>
  146. <br>
  147. <br>
  148. <b>void (*pcre32_free)(void *);</b>
  149. <br>
  150. <br>
  151. <b>void *(*pcre32_stack_malloc)(size_t);</b>
  152. <br>
  153. <br>
  154. <b>void (*pcre32_stack_free)(void *);</b>
  155. <br>
  156. <br>
  157. <b>int (*pcre32_callout)(pcre32_callout_block *);</b>
  158. </P>
  159. <br><a name="SEC5" href="#TOC1">PCRE 32-BIT API 32-BIT-ONLY FUNCTION</a><br>
  160. <P>
  161. <b>int pcre32_utf32_to_host_byte_order(PCRE_UCHAR32 *<i>output</i>,</b>
  162. <b> PCRE_SPTR32 <i>input</i>, int <i>length</i>, int *<i>byte_order</i>,</b>
  163. <b> int <i>keep_boms</i>);</b>
  164. </P>
  165. <br><a name="SEC6" href="#TOC1">THE PCRE 32-BIT LIBRARY</a><br>
  166. <P>
  167. Starting with release 8.32, it is possible to compile a PCRE library that
  168. supports 32-bit character strings, including UTF-32 strings, as well as or
  169. instead of the original 8-bit library. This work was done by Christian Persch,
  170. based on the work done by Zoltan Herczeg for the 16-bit library. All three
  171. libraries contain identical sets of functions, used in exactly the same way.
  172. Only the names of the functions and the data types of their arguments and
  173. results are different. To avoid over-complication and reduce the documentation
  174. maintenance load, most of the PCRE documentation describes the 8-bit library,
  175. with only occasional references to the 16-bit and 32-bit libraries. This page
  176. describes what is different when you use the 32-bit library.
  177. </P>
  178. <P>
  179. WARNING: A single application can be linked with all or any of the three
  180. libraries, but you must take care when processing any particular pattern
  181. to use functions from just one library. For example, if you want to study
  182. a pattern that was compiled with <b>pcre32_compile()</b>, you must do so
  183. with <b>pcre32_study()</b>, not <b>pcre_study()</b>, and you must free the
  184. study data with <b>pcre32_free_study()</b>.
  185. </P>
  186. <br><a name="SEC7" href="#TOC1">THE HEADER FILE</a><br>
  187. <P>
  188. There is only one header file, <b>pcre.h</b>. It contains prototypes for all the
  189. functions in all libraries, as well as definitions of flags, structures, error
  190. codes, etc.
  191. </P>
  192. <br><a name="SEC8" href="#TOC1">THE LIBRARY NAME</a><br>
  193. <P>
  194. In Unix-like systems, the 32-bit library is called <b>libpcre32</b>, and can
  195. normally be accesss by adding <b>-lpcre32</b> to the command for linking an
  196. application that uses PCRE.
  197. </P>
  198. <br><a name="SEC9" href="#TOC1">STRING TYPES</a><br>
  199. <P>
  200. In the 8-bit library, strings are passed to PCRE library functions as vectors
  201. of bytes with the C type "char *". In the 32-bit library, strings are passed as
  202. vectors of unsigned 32-bit quantities. The macro PCRE_UCHAR32 specifies an
  203. appropriate data type, and PCRE_SPTR32 is defined as "const PCRE_UCHAR32 *". In
  204. very many environments, "unsigned int" is a 32-bit data type. When PCRE is
  205. built, it defines PCRE_UCHAR32 as "unsigned int", but checks that it really is
  206. a 32-bit data type. If it is not, the build fails with an error message telling
  207. the maintainer to modify the definition appropriately.
  208. </P>
  209. <br><a name="SEC10" href="#TOC1">STRUCTURE TYPES</a><br>
  210. <P>
  211. The types of the opaque structures that are used for compiled 32-bit patterns
  212. and JIT stacks are <b>pcre32</b> and <b>pcre32_jit_stack</b> respectively. The
  213. type of the user-accessible structure that is returned by <b>pcre32_study()</b>
  214. is <b>pcre32_extra</b>, and the type of the structure that is used for passing
  215. data to a callout function is <b>pcre32_callout_block</b>. These structures
  216. contain the same fields, with the same names, as their 8-bit counterparts. The
  217. only difference is that pointers to character strings are 32-bit instead of
  218. 8-bit types.
  219. </P>
  220. <br><a name="SEC11" href="#TOC1">32-BIT FUNCTIONS</a><br>
  221. <P>
  222. For every function in the 8-bit library there is a corresponding function in
  223. the 32-bit library with a name that starts with <b>pcre32_</b> instead of
  224. <b>pcre_</b>. The prototypes are listed above. In addition, there is one extra
  225. function, <b>pcre32_utf32_to_host_byte_order()</b>. This is a utility function
  226. that converts a UTF-32 character string to host byte order if necessary. The
  227. other 32-bit functions expect the strings they are passed to be in host byte
  228. order.
  229. </P>
  230. <P>
  231. The <i>input</i> and <i>output</i> arguments of
  232. <b>pcre32_utf32_to_host_byte_order()</b> may point to the same address, that is,
  233. conversion in place is supported. The output buffer must be at least as long as
  234. the input.
  235. </P>
  236. <P>
  237. The <i>length</i> argument specifies the number of 32-bit data units in the
  238. input string; a negative value specifies a zero-terminated string.
  239. </P>
  240. <P>
  241. If <i>byte_order</i> is NULL, it is assumed that the string starts off in host
  242. byte order. This may be changed by byte-order marks (BOMs) anywhere in the
  243. string (commonly as the first character).
  244. </P>
  245. <P>
  246. If <i>byte_order</i> is not NULL, a non-zero value of the integer to which it
  247. points means that the input starts off in host byte order, otherwise the
  248. opposite order is assumed. Again, BOMs in the string can change this. The final
  249. byte order is passed back at the end of processing.
  250. </P>
  251. <P>
  252. If <i>keep_boms</i> is not zero, byte-order mark characters (0xfeff) are copied
  253. into the output string. Otherwise they are discarded.
  254. </P>
  255. <P>
  256. The result of the function is the number of 32-bit units placed into the output
  257. buffer, including the zero terminator if the string was zero-terminated.
  258. </P>
  259. <br><a name="SEC12" href="#TOC1">SUBJECT STRING OFFSETS</a><br>
  260. <P>
  261. The lengths and starting offsets of subject strings must be specified in 32-bit
  262. data units, and the offsets within subject strings that are returned by the
  263. matching functions are in also 32-bit units rather than bytes.
  264. </P>
  265. <br><a name="SEC13" href="#TOC1">NAMED SUBPATTERNS</a><br>
  266. <P>
  267. The name-to-number translation table that is maintained for named subpatterns
  268. uses 32-bit characters. The <b>pcre32_get_stringtable_entries()</b> function
  269. returns the length of each entry in the table as the number of 32-bit data
  270. units.
  271. </P>
  272. <br><a name="SEC14" href="#TOC1">OPTION NAMES</a><br>
  273. <P>
  274. There are two new general option names, PCRE_UTF32 and PCRE_NO_UTF32_CHECK,
  275. which correspond to PCRE_UTF8 and PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK in the 8-bit library. In
  276. fact, these new options define the same bits in the options word. There is a
  277. discussion about the
  278. <a href="pcreunicode.html#utf32strings">validity of UTF-32 strings</a>
  279. in the
  280. <a href="pcreunicode.html"><b>pcreunicode</b></a>
  281. page.
  282. </P>
  283. <P>
  284. For the <b>pcre32_config()</b> function there is an option PCRE_CONFIG_UTF32
  285. that returns 1 if UTF-32 support is configured, otherwise 0. If this option is
  286. given to <b>pcre_config()</b> or <b>pcre16_config()</b>, or if the
  287. PCRE_CONFIG_UTF8 or PCRE_CONFIG_UTF16 option is given to <b>pcre32_config()</b>,
  288. the result is the PCRE_ERROR_BADOPTION error.
  289. </P>
  290. <br><a name="SEC15" href="#TOC1">CHARACTER CODES</a><br>
  291. <P>
  292. In 32-bit mode, when PCRE_UTF32 is not set, character values are treated in the
  293. same way as in 8-bit, non UTF-8 mode, except, of course, that they can range
  294. from 0 to 0x7fffffff instead of 0 to 0xff. Character types for characters less
  295. than 0xff can therefore be influenced by the locale in the same way as before.
  296. Characters greater than 0xff have only one case, and no "type" (such as letter
  297. or digit).
  298. </P>
  299. <P>
  300. In UTF-32 mode, the character code is Unicode, in the range 0 to 0x10ffff, with
  301. the exception of values in the range 0xd800 to 0xdfff because those are
  302. "surrogate" values that are ill-formed in UTF-32.
  303. </P>
  304. <P>
  305. A UTF-32 string can indicate its endianness by special code knows as a
  306. byte-order mark (BOM). The PCRE functions do not handle this, expecting strings
  307. to be in host byte order. A utility function called
  308. <b>pcre32_utf32_to_host_byte_order()</b> is provided to help with this (see
  309. above).
  310. </P>
  311. <br><a name="SEC16" href="#TOC1">ERROR NAMES</a><br>
  312. <P>
  313. The error PCRE_ERROR_BADUTF32 corresponds to its 8-bit counterpart.
  314. The error PCRE_ERROR_BADMODE is given when a compiled
  315. pattern is passed to a function that processes patterns in the other
  316. mode, for example, if a pattern compiled with <b>pcre_compile()</b> is passed to
  317. <b>pcre32_exec()</b>.
  318. </P>
  319. <P>
  320. There are new error codes whose names begin with PCRE_UTF32_ERR for invalid
  321. UTF-32 strings, corresponding to the PCRE_UTF8_ERR codes for UTF-8 strings that
  322. are described in the section entitled
  323. <a href="pcreapi.html#badutf8reasons">"Reason codes for invalid UTF-8 strings"</a>
  324. in the main
  325. <a href="pcreapi.html"><b>pcreapi</b></a>
  326. page. The UTF-32 errors are:
  327. <pre>
  328. PCRE_UTF32_ERR1 Surrogate character (range from 0xd800 to 0xdfff)
  329. PCRE_UTF32_ERR2 Non-character
  330. PCRE_UTF32_ERR3 Character &#62; 0x10ffff
  331. </PRE>
  332. </P>
  333. <br><a name="SEC17" href="#TOC1">ERROR TEXTS</a><br>
  334. <P>
  335. If there is an error while compiling a pattern, the error text that is passed
  336. back by <b>pcre32_compile()</b> or <b>pcre32_compile2()</b> is still an 8-bit
  337. character string, zero-terminated.
  338. </P>
  339. <br><a name="SEC18" href="#TOC1">CALLOUTS</a><br>
  340. <P>
  341. The <i>subject</i> and <i>mark</i> fields in the callout block that is passed to
  342. a callout function point to 32-bit vectors.
  343. </P>
  344. <br><a name="SEC19" href="#TOC1">TESTING</a><br>
  345. <P>
  346. The <b>pcretest</b> program continues to operate with 8-bit input and output
  347. files, but it can be used for testing the 32-bit library. If it is run with the
  348. command line option <b>-32</b>, patterns and subject strings are converted from
  349. 8-bit to 32-bit before being passed to PCRE, and the 32-bit library functions
  350. are used instead of the 8-bit ones. Returned 32-bit strings are converted to
  351. 8-bit for output. If both the 8-bit and the 16-bit libraries were not compiled,
  352. <b>pcretest</b> defaults to 32-bit and the <b>-32</b> option is ignored.
  353. </P>
  354. <P>
  355. When PCRE is being built, the <b>RunTest</b> script that is called by "make
  356. check" uses the <b>pcretest</b> <b>-C</b> option to discover which of the 8-bit,
  357. 16-bit and 32-bit libraries has been built, and runs the tests appropriately.
  358. </P>
  359. <br><a name="SEC20" href="#TOC1">NOT SUPPORTED IN 32-BIT MODE</a><br>
  360. <P>
  361. Not all the features of the 8-bit library are available with the 32-bit
  362. library. The C++ and POSIX wrapper functions support only the 8-bit library,
  363. and the <b>pcregrep</b> program is at present 8-bit only.
  364. </P>
  365. <br><a name="SEC21" href="#TOC1">AUTHOR</a><br>
  366. <P>
  367. Philip Hazel
  368. <br>
  369. University Computing Service
  370. <br>
  371. Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
  372. <br>
  373. </P>
  374. <br><a name="SEC22" href="#TOC1">REVISION</a><br>
  375. <P>
  376. Last updated: 12 May 2013
  377. <br>
  378. Copyright &copy; 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
  379. <br>
  380. <p>
  381. Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>.
  382. </p>