<html> <head> <title>pcre_get_substring specification</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#3399FF" vlink="#2222BB"> This HTML document has been generated automatically from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, please consult the man page, in case the conversion went wrong.<br> <br><b> SYNOPSIS </b><br> <P> <b>#include <pcre.h></b> </P> <P> <b>int pcre_get_substring(const char *<i>subject</i>, int *<i>ovector</i>,</b> <b>int <i>stringcount</i>, int <i>stringnumber</i>,</b> <b>const char **<i>stringptr</i>);</b> </P> <br><b> DESCRIPTION </b><br> <P> This is a convenience function for extracting a captured substring. The arguments are: </P> <P> <pre> <i>subject</i> Subject that has been successfully matched <i>ovector</i> Offset vector that <b>pcre_exec()</b> used <i>stringcount</i> Value returned by <b>pcre_exec()</b> <i>stringnumber</i> Number of the required substring <i>stringptr</i> Where to put the string pointer </PRE> </P> <P> The yield is the length of the substring, PCRE_ERROR_NOMEMORY if sufficient memory could not be obtained, or PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING if the string number is invalid. </P> <P> There is a complete description of the PCRE API in the <a href="pcreapi.html"><b>pcreapi</b></a> page.
