pcre2_set_parens_nest_limit(3)

pcre2_set_parens_nest_limit3

Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised api)

Usage

#include <pcre2.h>

int pcre2_set_parens_nest_limit(pcre2_compile_context *ccontext,
  uint32_t value);

Overview

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 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 2026-11-07. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.