pcre32_version(3)

pcre32_version3

Perl-compatible regular expressions

Part of pcre_version(3).

Usage

#include <pcre.h>

const char *pcre_version(void);

const char *pcre16_version(void);

const char *pcre32_version(void);

Overview

This function (even in the 16-bit and 32-bit libraries) returns a zero-terminated, 8-bit character string that gives the version number of the PCRE library and the date of its release.

There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the pcreapi page and a description of the POSIX API in the pcreposix page.

Releases

Unchanged in 6 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie).

  1. 8–Arch

From pcre 8.45-5 in Arch Linux 2026-11-07. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.