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  3. <title>pcre_compile specification</title>
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  6. <h1>pcre_compile man page</h1>
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  15. <br><b>
  16. SYNOPSIS
  17. </b><br>
  18. <P>
  19. <b>#include &#60;pcre.h&#62;</b>
  20. </P>
  21. <P>
  22. <b>pcre *pcre_compile(const char *<i>pattern</i>, int <i>options</i>,</b>
  23. <b> const char **<i>errptr</i>, int *<i>erroffset</i>,</b>
  24. <b> const unsigned char *<i>tableptr</i>);</b>
  25. <br>
  26. <br>
  27. <b>pcre16 *pcre16_compile(PCRE_SPTR16 <i>pattern</i>, int <i>options</i>,</b>
  28. <b> const char **<i>errptr</i>, int *<i>erroffset</i>,</b>
  29. <b> const unsigned char *<i>tableptr</i>);</b>
  30. <br>
  31. <br>
  32. <b>pcre32 *pcre32_compile(PCRE_SPTR32 <i>pattern</i>, int <i>options</i>,</b>
  33. <b> const char **<i>errptr</i>, int *<i>erroffset</i>,</b>
  34. <b> const unsigned char *<i>tableptr</i>);</b>
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  36. <br><b>
  37. DESCRIPTION
  38. </b><br>
  39. <P>
  40. This function compiles a regular expression into an internal form. It is the
  41. same as <b>pcre[16|32]_compile2()</b>, except for the absence of the
  42. <i>errorcodeptr</i> argument. Its arguments are:
  43. <pre>
  44. <i>pattern</i> A zero-terminated string containing the
  45. regular expression to be compiled
  46. <i>options</i> Zero or more option bits
  47. <i>errptr</i> Where to put an error message
  48. <i>erroffset</i> Offset in pattern where error was found
  49. <i>tableptr</i> Pointer to character tables, or NULL to
  50. use the built-in default
  51. </pre>
  52. The option bits are:
  53. <pre>
  54. PCRE_ANCHORED Force pattern anchoring
  55. PCRE_AUTO_CALLOUT Compile automatic callouts
  56. PCRE_BSR_ANYCRLF \R matches only CR, LF, or CRLF
  57. PCRE_BSR_UNICODE \R matches all Unicode line endings
  58. PCRE_CASELESS Do caseless matching
  59. PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY $ not to match newline at end
  60. PCRE_DOTALL . matches anything including NL
  61. PCRE_DUPNAMES Allow duplicate names for subpatterns
  62. PCRE_EXTENDED Ignore white space and # comments
  63. PCRE_EXTRA PCRE extra features
  64. (not much use currently)
  65. PCRE_FIRSTLINE Force matching to be before newline
  66. PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT JavaScript compatibility
  67. PCRE_MULTILINE ^ and $ match newlines within data
  68. PCRE_NEVER_UTF Lock out UTF, e.g. via (*UTF)
  69. PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY Recognize any Unicode newline sequence
  70. PCRE_NEWLINE_ANYCRLF Recognize CR, LF, and CRLF as newline
  71. sequences
  72. PCRE_NEWLINE_CR Set CR as the newline sequence
  73. PCRE_NEWLINE_CRLF Set CRLF as the newline sequence
  74. PCRE_NEWLINE_LF Set LF as the newline sequence
  75. PCRE_NO_AUTO_CAPTURE Disable numbered capturing paren-
  76. theses (named ones available)
  77. PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS Disable auto-possessification
  78. PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE Disable match-time start optimizations
  79. PCRE_NO_UTF16_CHECK Do not check the pattern for UTF-16
  80. validity (only relevant if
  81. PCRE_UTF16 is set)
  82. PCRE_NO_UTF32_CHECK Do not check the pattern for UTF-32
  83. validity (only relevant if
  84. PCRE_UTF32 is set)
  85. PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK Do not check the pattern for UTF-8
  86. validity (only relevant if
  87. PCRE_UTF8 is set)
  88. PCRE_UCP Use Unicode properties for \d, \w, etc.
  89. PCRE_UNGREEDY Invert greediness of quantifiers
  90. PCRE_UTF16 Run in <b>pcre16_compile()</b> UTF-16 mode
  91. PCRE_UTF32 Run in <b>pcre32_compile()</b> UTF-32 mode
  92. PCRE_UTF8 Run in <b>pcre_compile()</b> UTF-8 mode
  93. </pre>
  94. PCRE must be built with UTF support in order to use PCRE_UTF8/16/32 and
  95. PCRE_NO_UTF8/16/32_CHECK, and with UCP support if PCRE_UCP is used.
  96. </P>
  97. <P>
  98. The yield of the function is a pointer to a private data structure that
  99. contains the compiled pattern, or NULL if an error was detected. Note that
  100. compiling regular expressions with one version of PCRE for use with a different
  101. version is not guaranteed to work and may cause crashes.
  102. </P>
  103. <P>
  104. There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the
  105. <a href="pcreapi.html"><b>pcreapi</b></a>
  106. page and a description of the POSIX API in the
  107. <a href="pcreposix.html"><b>pcreposix</b></a>
  108. page.
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