1<html> 2<head> 3<title>pcre2_get_startchar specification</title> 4</head> 5<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#3399FF" vlink="#2222BB"> 6<h1>pcre2_get_startchar man page</h1> 7<p> 8Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE2 index page</a>. 9</p> 10<p> 11This page is part of the PCRE2 HTML documentation. It was generated 12automatically from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, 13please consult the man page, in case the conversion went wrong. 14<br> 15<br><b> 16SYNOPSIS 17</b><br> 18<P> 19<b>#include <pcre2.h></b> 20</P> 21<P> 22<b>PCRE2_SIZE pcre2_get_startchar(pcre2_match_data *<i>match_data</i>);</b> 23</P> 24<br><b> 25DESCRIPTION 26</b><br> 27<P> 28After a successful call of <b>pcre2_match()</b> that was passed the match block 29that is this function's argument, this function returns the code unit offset of 30the character at which the successful match started. For a non-partial match, 31this can be different to the value of <i>ovector[0]</i> if the pattern contains 32the \K escape sequence. After a partial match, however, this value is always 33the same as <i>ovector[0]</i> because \K does not affect the result of a 34partial match. 35</P> 36<P> 37There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the 38<a href="pcre2api.html"><b>pcre2api</b></a> 39page and a description of the POSIX API in the 40<a href="pcre2posix.html"><b>pcre2posix</b></a> 41page. 42<p> 43Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE2 index page</a>. 44</p> 45