pcre2_match_context_create(3)

pcre2_match_context_create3

Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised api)

Usage

#include <pcre2.h>

pcre2_match_context *pcre2_match_context_create(
  pcre2_general_context *gcontext);

Overview

This function creates and initializes a new match context. If its argument is NULL, malloc() is used to get the necessary memory; otherwise the memory allocation function within the general context is used. The result is NULL if the memory could not be obtained.

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.