pcre2_get_ovector_pointer(3)

pcre2_get_ovector_pointer3

Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised api)

Usage

#include <pcre2.h>

PCRE2_SIZE *pcre2_get_ovector_pointer(pcre2_match_data *match_data);

Overview

This function returns a pointer to the vector of offsets that forms part of the given match data block. The number of pairs can be found by calling pcre2_get_ovector_count().

There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the pcre2api page and a description of the POSIX API in the pcre2posix page.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 9–12
  2. 13
  3. Arch

From pcre2 10.49-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.