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NAME

       PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcre2.h>

       PCRE2_SIZE pcre2_get_startchar(pcre2_match_data *match_data);

DESCRIPTION

       After  a  successful  call  of  pcre2_match()  that  was  passed  the match block that is this function's
       argument, this function returns the code unit offset of the  character  at  which  the  successful  match
       started.  For  a  non-partial  match,  this  can  be  different to the value of ovector[0] if the pattern
       contains the \K escape sequence. After a partial match,  however,  this  value  is  always  the  same  as
       ovector[0] because \K does not affect the result of a partial match.

       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.