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| 9 | <title>PCRE specification</title> |
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| 11 | <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#3399FF" vlink="#2222BB"> |
| 12 | <h1>Perl-compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE)</h1> |
| 13 | <p> |
| 14 | The HTML documentation for PCRE comprises the following pages: |
| 15 | </p> |
| 16 | |
| 17 | <table> |
| 18 | <tr><td><a href="pcre.html">pcre</a></td> |
| 19 | <td> Introductory page</td></tr> |
| 20 | |
| 21 | <tr><td><a href="pcre-config.html">pcre-config</a></td> |
| 22 | <td> Information about the installation configuration</td></tr> |
| 23 | |
| 24 | <tr><td><a href="pcreapi.html">pcreapi</a></td> |
| 25 | <td> PCRE's native API</td></tr> |
| 26 | |
| 27 | <tr><td><a href="pcrebuild.html">pcrebuild</a></td> |
| 28 | <td> Options for building PCRE</td></tr> |
| 29 | |
| 30 | <tr><td><a href="pcrecallout.html">pcrecallout</a></td> |
| 31 | <td> The <i>callout</i> facility</td></tr> |
| 32 | |
| 33 | <tr><td><a href="pcrecompat.html">pcrecompat</a></td> |
| 34 | <td> Compability with Perl</td></tr> |
| 35 | |
| 36 | <tr><td><a href="pcrecpp.html">pcrecpp</a></td> |
| 37 | <td> The C++ wrapper for the PCRE library</td></tr> |
| 38 | |
| 39 | <tr><td><a href="pcredemo.html">pcredemo</a></td> |
| 40 | <td> A demonstration C program that uses the PCRE library</td></tr> |
| 41 | |
| 42 | <tr><td><a href="pcregrep.html">pcregrep</a></td> |
| 43 | <td> The <b>pcregrep</b> command</td></tr> |
| 44 | |
| 45 | <tr><td><a href="pcrejit.html">pcrejit</a></td> |
| 46 | <td> Discussion of the just-in-time optimization support</td></tr> |
| 47 | |
| 48 | <tr><td><a href="pcrelimits.html">pcrelimits</a></td> |
| 49 | <td> Details of size and other limits</td></tr> |
| 50 | |
| 51 | <tr><td><a href="pcrematching.html">pcrematching</a></td> |
| 52 | <td> Discussion of the two matching algorithms</td></tr> |
| 53 | |
| 54 | <tr><td><a href="pcrepartial.html">pcrepartial</a></td> |
| 55 | <td> Using PCRE for partial matching</td></tr> |
| 56 | |
| 57 | <tr><td><a href="pcrepattern.html">pcrepattern</a></td> |
| 58 | <td> Specification of the regular expressions supported by PCRE</td></tr> |
| 59 | |
| 60 | <tr><td><a href="pcreperform.html">pcreperform</a></td> |
| 61 | <td> Some comments on performance</td></tr> |
| 62 | |
| 63 | <tr><td><a href="pcreposix.html">pcreposix</a></td> |
| 64 | <td> The POSIX API to the PCRE library</td></tr> |
| 65 | |
| 66 | <tr><td><a href="pcreprecompile.html">pcreprecompile</a></td> |
| 67 | <td> How to save and re-use compiled patterns</td></tr> |
| 68 | |
| 69 | <tr><td><a href="pcresample.html">pcresample</a></td> |
| 70 | <td> Discussion of the pcredemo program</td></tr> |
| 71 | |
| 72 | <tr><td><a href="pcrestack.html">pcrestack</a></td> |
| 73 | <td> Discussion of PCRE's stack usage</td></tr> |
| 74 | |
| 75 | <tr><td><a href="pcresyntax.html">pcresyntax</a></td> |
| 76 | <td> Syntax quick-reference summary</td></tr> |
| 77 | |
| 78 | <tr><td><a href="pcretest.html">pcretest</a></td> |
| 79 | <td> The <b>pcretest</b> command for testing PCRE</td></tr> |
| 80 | |
| 81 | <tr><td><a href="pcreunicode.html">pcreunicode</a></td> |
| 82 | <td> Discussion of Unicode and UTF-8 support</td></tr> |
| 83 | </table> |
| 84 | |
| 85 | <p> |
| 86 | There are also individual pages that summarize the interface for each function |
| 87 | in the library: |
| 88 | </p> |
| 89 | |
| 90 | <table> |
| 91 | |
| 92 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_assign_jit_stack.html">pcre_assign_jit_stack</a></td> |
| 93 | <td> Assign stack for JIT matching</td></tr> |
| 94 | |
| 95 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_compile.html">pcre_compile</a></td> |
| 96 | <td> Compile a regular expression</td></tr> |
| 97 | |
| 98 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_compile2.html">pcre_compile2</a></td> |
| 99 | <td> Compile a regular expression (alternate interface)</td></tr> |
| 100 | |
| 101 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_config.html">pcre_config</a></td> |
| 102 | <td> Show build-time configuration options</td></tr> |
| 103 | |
| 104 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_copy_named_substring.html">pcre_copy_named_substring</a></td> |
| 105 | <td> Extract named substring into given buffer</td></tr> |
| 106 | |
| 107 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_copy_substring.html">pcre_copy_substring</a></td> |
| 108 | <td> Extract numbered substring into given buffer</td></tr> |
| 109 | |
| 110 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_dfa_exec.html">pcre_dfa_exec</a></td> |
| 111 | <td> Match a compiled pattern to a subject string |
| 112 | (DFA algorithm; <i>not</i> Perl compatible)</td></tr> |
| 113 | |
| 114 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_free_study.html">pcre_free_study</a></td> |
| 115 | <td> Free study data</td></tr> |
| 116 | |
| 117 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_exec.html">pcre_exec</a></td> |
| 118 | <td> Match a compiled pattern to a subject string |
| 119 | (Perl compatible)</td></tr> |
| 120 | |
| 121 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_free_substring.html">pcre_free_substring</a></td> |
| 122 | <td> Free extracted substring</td></tr> |
| 123 | |
| 124 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_free_substring_list.html">pcre_free_substring_list</a></td> |
| 125 | <td> Free list of extracted substrings</td></tr> |
| 126 | |
| 127 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_fullinfo.html">pcre_fullinfo</a></td> |
| 128 | <td> Extract information about a pattern</td></tr> |
| 129 | |
| 130 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_get_named_substring.html">pcre_get_named_substring</a></td> |
| 131 | <td> Extract named substring into new memory</td></tr> |
| 132 | |
| 133 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_get_stringnumber.html">pcre_get_stringnumber</a></td> |
| 134 | <td> Convert captured string name to number</td></tr> |
| 135 | |
| 136 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_get_substring.html">pcre_get_substring</a></td> |
| 137 | <td> Extract numbered substring into new memory</td></tr> |
| 138 | |
| 139 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_get_substring_list.html">pcre_get_substring_list</a></td> |
| 140 | <td> Extract all substrings into new memory</td></tr> |
| 141 | |
| 142 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_info.html">pcre_info</a></td> |
| 143 | <td> Obsolete information extraction function</td></tr> |
| 144 | |
| 145 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_jit_stack_alloc.html">pcre_jit_stack_alloc</a></td> |
| 146 | <td> Create a stack for JIT matching</td></tr> |
| 147 | |
| 148 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_jit_stack_free.html">pcre_jit_stack_free</a></td> |
| 149 | <td> Free a JIT matching stack</td></tr> |
| 150 | |
| 151 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_maketables.html">pcre_maketables</a></td> |
| 152 | <td> Build character tables in current locale</td></tr> |
| 153 | |
| 154 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_refcount.html">pcre_refcount</a></td> |
| 155 | <td> Maintain reference count in compiled pattern</td></tr> |
| 156 | |
| 157 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_study.html">pcre_study</a></td> |
| 158 | <td> Study a compiled pattern</td></tr> |
| 159 | |
| 160 | <tr><td><a href="pcre_version.html">pcre_version</a></td> |
| 161 | <td> Return PCRE version and release date</td></tr> |
| 162 | </table> |
| 163 | |
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