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#include <pcre.h>
int pcre_get_stringnumber(const pcre *code, const char *name); int pcre16_get_stringnumber(const pcre16 *code, PCRE_SPTR16 name); int pcre32_get_stringnumber(const pcre32 *code, PCRE_SPTR32 name);
This convenience function finds the number of a named substring capturing parenthesis in a compiled pattern. Its arguments are:
code Compiled regular expression name Name whose number is required
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.