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NAME

       PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

       #include <pcre.h>

PCRE 32-BIT API BASIC FUNCTIONS


       pcre32 *pcre32_compile(PCRE_SPTR32 pattern, int options,
            const char **errptr, int *erroffset,
            const unsigned char *tableptr);

       pcre32 *pcre32_compile2(PCRE_SPTR32 pattern, int options,
            int *errorcodeptr,
            const unsigned char *tableptr);

       pcre32_extra *pcre32_study(const pcre32 *code, int options,
            const char **errptr);

       void pcre32_free_study(pcre32_extra *extra);

       int pcre32_exec(const pcre32 *code, const pcre32_extra *extra,
            PCRE_SPTR32 subject, int length, int startoffset,
            int options, int *ovector, int ovecsize);

       int pcre32_dfa_exec(const pcre32 *code, const pcre32_extra *extra,
            PCRE_SPTR32 subject, int length, int startoffset,
            int options, int *ovector, int ovecsize,
            int *workspace, int wscount);

PCRE 32-BIT API STRING EXTRACTION FUNCTIONS


       int pcre32_copy_named_substring(const pcre32 *code,
            PCRE_SPTR32 subject, int *ovector,
            int stringcount, PCRE_SPTR32 stringname,
            PCRE_UCHAR32 *buffer, int buffersize);

       int pcre32_copy_substring(PCRE_SPTR32 subject, int *ovector,
            int stringcount, int stringnumber, PCRE_UCHAR32 *buffer,
            int buffersize);

       int pcre32_get_named_substring(const pcre32 *code,
            PCRE_SPTR32 subject, int *ovector,
            int stringcount, PCRE_SPTR32 stringname,
            PCRE_SPTR32 *stringptr);

       int pcre32_get_stringnumber(const pcre32 *code,
            PCRE_SPTR32 name);

       int pcre32_get_stringtable_entries(const pcre32 *code,
            PCRE_SPTR32 name, PCRE_UCHAR32 **first, PCRE_UCHAR32 **last);

       int pcre32_get_substring(PCRE_SPTR32 subject, int *ovector,
            int stringcount, int stringnumber,
            PCRE_SPTR32 *stringptr);

       int pcre32_get_substring_list(PCRE_SPTR32 subject,
            int *ovector, int stringcount, PCRE_SPTR32 **listptr);

       void pcre32_free_substring(PCRE_SPTR32 stringptr);

       void pcre32_free_substring_list(PCRE_SPTR32 *stringptr);

PCRE 32-BIT API AUXILIARY FUNCTIONS


       pcre32_jit_stack *pcre32_jit_stack_alloc(int startsize, int maxsize);

       void pcre32_jit_stack_free(pcre32_jit_stack *stack);

       void pcre32_assign_jit_stack(pcre32_extra *extra,
            pcre32_jit_callback callback, void *data);

       const unsigned char *pcre32_maketables(void);

       int pcre32_fullinfo(const pcre32 *code, const pcre32_extra *extra,
            int what, void *where);

       int pcre32_refcount(pcre32 *code, int adjust);

       int pcre32_config(int what, void *where);

       const char *pcre32_version(void);

       int pcre32_pattern_to_host_byte_order(pcre32 *code,
            pcre32_extra *extra, const unsigned char *tables);

PCRE 32-BIT API INDIRECTED FUNCTIONS


       void *(*pcre32_malloc)(size_t);

       void (*pcre32_free)(void *);

       void *(*pcre32_stack_malloc)(size_t);

       void (*pcre32_stack_free)(void *);

       int (*pcre32_callout)(pcre32_callout_block *);

PCRE 32-BIT API 32-BIT-ONLY FUNCTION


       int pcre32_utf32_to_host_byte_order(PCRE_UCHAR32 *output,
            PCRE_SPTR32 input, int length, int *byte_order,
            int keep_boms);

THE PCRE 32-BIT LIBRARY


       Starting  with release 8.32, it is possible to compile a PCRE library that supports 32-bit
       character strings, including UTF-32 strings, as well as or instead of the  original  8-bit
       library.  This work was done by Christian Persch, based on the work done by Zoltan Herczeg
       for the 16-bit library. All three libraries contain identical sets of functions,  used  in
       exactly  the  same  way.   Only  the  names  of  the functions and the data types of their
       arguments  and  results  are  different.  To  avoid  over-complication  and   reduce   the
       documentation  maintenance  load,  most  of  the  PCRE  documentation  describes the 8-bit
       library, with only occasional references to the 16-bit and  32-bit  libraries.  This  page
       describes what is different when you use the 32-bit library.

       WARNING:  A  single  application can be linked with all or any of the three libraries, but
       you must take care when processing any particular pattern to use functions from  just  one
       library.   For   example,  if  you  want  to  study  a  pattern  that  was  compiled  with
       pcre32_compile(), you must do so with pcre32_study(), not pcre_study(), and you must  free
       the study data with pcre32_free_study().

THE HEADER FILE


       There is only one header file, pcre.h. It contains prototypes for all the functions in all
       libraries, as well as definitions of flags, structures, error codes, etc.

THE LIBRARY NAME


       In Unix-like systems, the 32-bit library is called libpcre32, and can normally be  accesss
       by adding -lpcre32 to the command for linking an application that uses PCRE.

STRING TYPES


       In  the  8-bit  library,  strings are passed to PCRE library functions as vectors of bytes
       with the C type "char *". In the 32-bit library, strings are passed as vectors of unsigned
       32-bit  quantities.  The  macro  PCRE_UCHAR32  specifies  an  appropriate  data  type, and
       PCRE_SPTR32 is defined as "const PCRE_UCHAR32 *". In  very  many  environments,  "unsigned
       int" is a 32-bit data type. When PCRE is built, it defines PCRE_UCHAR32 as "unsigned int",
       but checks that it really is a 32-bit data type. If it is not, the  build  fails  with  an
       error message telling the maintainer to modify the definition appropriately.

STRUCTURE TYPES


       The  types  of  the  opaque  structures that are used for compiled 32-bit patterns and JIT
       stacks are pcre32 and pcre32_jit_stack  respectively.  The  type  of  the  user-accessible
       structure  that  is  returned  by  pcre32_study()  is  pcre32_extra,  and  the type of the
       structure that is used for passing data to a  callout  function  is  pcre32_callout_block.
       These   structures  contain  the  same  fields,  with  the  same  names,  as  their  8-bit
       counterparts. The only difference is that pointers to character strings are 32-bit instead
       of 8-bit types.

32-BIT FUNCTIONS


       For  every  function  in the 8-bit library there is a corresponding function in the 32-bit
       library with a name that starts with pcre32_ instead of pcre_. The prototypes  are  listed
       above.  In  addition, there is one extra function, pcre32_utf32_to_host_byte_order(). This
       is a utility function that converts a UTF-32  character  string  to  host  byte  order  if
       necessary.  The  other  32-bit  functions expect the strings they are passed to be in host
       byte order.

       The input and output arguments of pcre32_utf32_to_host_byte_order() may point to the  same
       address,  that is, conversion in place is supported. The output buffer must be at least as
       long as the input.

       The length argument specifies the number of 32-bit data  units  in  the  input  string;  a
       negative value specifies a zero-terminated string.

       If  byte_order  is NULL, it is assumed that the string starts off in host byte order. This
       may be changed by byte-order marks (BOMs) anywhere in the string (commonly  as  the  first
       character).

       If  byte_order  is not NULL, a non-zero value of the integer to which it points means that
       the input starts off in host byte order, otherwise the opposite order is  assumed.  Again,
       BOMs  in  the  string  can  change this. The final byte order is passed back at the end of
       processing.

       If keep_boms is not zero, byte-order mark characters (0xfeff) are copied into  the  output
       string. Otherwise they are discarded.

       The  result  of  the function is the number of 32-bit units placed into the output buffer,
       including the zero terminator if the string was zero-terminated.

SUBJECT STRING OFFSETS


       The lengths and starting offsets of subject strings  must  be  specified  in  32-bit  data
       units,  and the offsets within subject strings that are returned by the matching functions
       are in also 32-bit units rather than bytes.

NAMED SUBPATTERNS


       The name-to-number translation table that is maintained for named subpatterns uses  32-bit
       characters. The pcre32_get_stringtable_entries() function returns the length of each entry
       in the table as the number of 32-bit data units.

OPTION NAMES


       There are  two  new  general  option  names,  PCRE_UTF32  and  PCRE_NO_UTF32_CHECK,  which
       correspond  to  PCRE_UTF8  and PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK in the 8-bit library. In fact, these new
       options define the same bits in the options word. There is a discussion about the validity
       of UTF-32 strings in the pcreunicode page.

       For  the  pcre32_config()  function there is an option PCRE_CONFIG_UTF32 that returns 1 if
       UTF-32 support is configured, otherwise 0. If this option is  given  to  pcre_config()  or
       pcre16_config(),  or  if  the  PCRE_CONFIG_UTF8  or  PCRE_CONFIG_UTF16  option is given to
       pcre32_config(), the result is the PCRE_ERROR_BADOPTION error.

CHARACTER CODES


       In 32-bit mode, when PCRE_UTF32 is not set, character values are treated in the  same  way
       as  in  8-bit, non UTF-8 mode, except, of course, that they can range from 0 to 0x7fffffff
       instead of 0 to 0xff. Character types for characters  less  than  0xff  can  therefore  be
       influenced  by  the  locale  in the same way as before.  Characters greater than 0xff have
       only one case, and no "type" (such as letter or digit).

       In UTF-32 mode, the character code is Unicode, in  the  range  0  to  0x10ffff,  with  the
       exception  of  values  in  the range 0xd800 to 0xdfff because those are "surrogate" values
       that are ill-formed in UTF-32.

       A UTF-32 string can indicate its endianness by special code knows  as  a  byte-order  mark
       (BOM).  The PCRE functions do not handle this, expecting strings to be in host byte order.
       A utility function called pcre32_utf32_to_host_byte_order() is provided to help with  this
       (see above).

ERROR NAMES


       The   error   PCRE_ERROR_BADUTF32   corresponds  to  its  8-bit  counterpart.   The  error
       PCRE_ERROR_BADMODE is given when a compiled pattern is passed to a function that processes
       patterns  in  the  other  mode,  for example, if a pattern compiled with pcre_compile() is
       passed to pcre32_exec().

       There are new error codes  whose  names  begin  with  PCRE_UTF32_ERR  for  invalid  UTF-32
       strings,  corresponding to the PCRE_UTF8_ERR codes for UTF-8 strings that are described in
       the section entitled "Reason codes for invalid UTF-8 strings" in the  main  pcreapi  page.
       The UTF-32 errors are:

         PCRE_UTF32_ERR1  Surrogate character (range from 0xd800 to 0xdfff)
         PCRE_UTF32_ERR2  Non-character
         PCRE_UTF32_ERR3  Character > 0x10ffff

ERROR TEXTS


       If  there  is  an  error  while compiling a pattern, the error text that is passed back by
       pcre32_compile() or pcre32_compile2() is still an 8-bit character string, zero-terminated.

CALLOUTS


       The subject and mark fields in the callout block that is  passed  to  a  callout  function
       point to 32-bit vectors.

TESTING


       The pcretest program continues to operate with 8-bit input and output files, but it can be
       used for testing the 32-bit library. If it is  run  with  the  command  line  option  -32,
       patterns  and  subject  strings  are converted from 8-bit to 32-bit before being passed to
       PCRE, and the 32-bit library functions are used instead of the 8-bit ones. Returned 32-bit
       strings are converted to 8-bit for output. If both the 8-bit and the 16-bit libraries were
       not compiled, pcretest defaults to 32-bit and the -32 option is ignored.

       When PCRE is being built, the RunTest script that is  called  by  "make  check"  uses  the
       pcretest  -C  option  to discover which of the 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit libraries has been
       built, and runs the tests appropriately.

NOT SUPPORTED IN 32-BIT MODE


       Not all the features of the 8-bit library are available with the 32-bit library.  The  C++
       and POSIX wrapper functions support only the 8-bit library, and the pcregrep program is at
       present 8-bit only.

AUTHOR


       Philip Hazel
       University Computing Service
       Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.

REVISION


       Last updated: 12 May 2013
       Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.