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This page is part of the PCRE2 HTML documentation. It was 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. SYNOPSIS
#include <pcre2.h>
int pcre2_substring_nametable_scan(const pcre2_code *code, PCRE2_SPTR name, PCRE2_SPTR *first, PCRE2_SPTR *last);
This convenience function finds, for a compiled pattern, the first and last entries for a given name in the table that translates capture group names into numbers.
code Compiled regular expression name Name whose entries required first Where to return a pointer to the first entry last Where to return a pointer to the last entry
There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API, including the format of the table entries, in the pcre2api page, and a description of the POSIX API in the pcre2posix page.