1<html> 2<head> 3<title>pcre2_pattern_info specification</title> 4</head> 5<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#3399FF" vlink="#2222BB"> 6<h1>pcre2_pattern_info 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>int pcre2_pattern_info(const pcre2 *<i>code</i>, uint32_t <i>what</i>, void *<i>where</i>);</b> 23</P> 24<br><b> 25DESCRIPTION 26</b><br> 27<P> 28This function returns information about a compiled pattern. Its arguments are: 29<pre> 30 <i>code</i> Pointer to a compiled regular expression pattern 31 <i>what</i> What information is required 32 <i>where</i> Where to put the information 33</pre> 34The recognized values for the <i>what</i> argument, and the information they 35request are as follows: 36<pre> 37 PCRE2_INFO_ALLOPTIONS Final options after compiling 38 PCRE2_INFO_ARGOPTIONS Options passed to <b>pcre2_compile()</b> 39 PCRE2_INFO_BACKREFMAX Number of highest backreference 40 PCRE2_INFO_BSR What \R matches: 41 PCRE2_BSR_UNICODE: Unicode line endings 42 PCRE2_BSR_ANYCRLF: CR, LF, or CRLF only 43 PCRE2_INFO_CAPTURECOUNT Number of capturing subpatterns 44 PCRE2_INFO_DEPTHLIMIT Backtracking depth limit if set, otherwise PCRE2_ERROR_UNSET 45 PCRE2_INFO_EXTRAOPTIONS Extra options that were passed in the 46 compile context 47 PCRE2_INFO_FIRSTBITMAP Bitmap of first code units, or NULL 48 PCRE2_INFO_FIRSTCODETYPE Type of start-of-match information 49 0 nothing set 50 1 first code unit is set 51 2 start of string or after newline 52 PCRE2_INFO_FIRSTCODEUNIT First code unit when type is 1 53 PCRE2_INFO_FRAMESIZE Size of backtracking frame 54 PCRE2_INFO_HASBACKSLASHC Return 1 if pattern contains \C 55 PCRE2_INFO_HASCRORLF Return 1 if explicit CR or LF matches exist in the pattern 56 PCRE2_INFO_HEAPLIMIT Heap memory limit if set, otherwise PCRE2_ERROR_UNSET 57 PCRE2_INFO_JCHANGED Return 1 if (?J) or (?-J) was used 58 PCRE2_INFO_JITSIZE Size of JIT compiled code, or 0 59 PCRE2_INFO_LASTCODETYPE Type of must-be-present information 60 0 nothing set 61 1 code unit is set 62 PCRE2_INFO_LASTCODEUNIT Last code unit when type is 1 63 PCRE2_INFO_MATCHEMPTY 1 if the pattern can match an empty string, 0 otherwise 64 PCRE2_INFO_MATCHLIMIT Match limit if set, otherwise PCRE2_ERROR_UNSET 65 PCRE2_INFO_MAXLOOKBEHIND Length (in characters) of the longest lookbehind assertion 66 PCRE2_INFO_MINLENGTH Lower bound length of matching strings 67 PCRE2_INFO_NAMECOUNT Number of named subpatterns 68 PCRE2_INFO_NAMEENTRYSIZE Size of name table entries 69 PCRE2_INFO_NAMETABLE Pointer to name table 70 PCRE2_CONFIG_NEWLINE Code for the newline sequence: 71 PCRE2_NEWLINE_CR 72 PCRE2_NEWLINE_LF 73 PCRE2_NEWLINE_CRLF 74 PCRE2_NEWLINE_ANY 75 PCRE2_NEWLINE_ANYCRLF 76 PCRE2_NEWLINE_NUL 77 PCRE2_INFO_RECURSIONLIMIT Obsolete synonym for PCRE2_INFO_DEPTHLIMIT 78 PCRE2_INFO_SIZE Size of compiled pattern 79</pre> 80If <i>where</i> is NULL, the function returns the amount of memory needed for 81the requested information, in bytes. Otherwise, the <i>where</i> argument must 82point to an unsigned 32-bit integer (uint32_t variable), except for the 83following <i>what</i> values, when it must point to a variable of the type 84shown: 85<pre> 86 PCRE2_INFO_FIRSTBITMAP const uint8_t * 87 PCRE2_INFO_JITSIZE size_t 88 PCRE2_INFO_NAMETABLE PCRE2_SPTR 89 PCRE2_INFO_SIZE size_t 90</pre> 91The yield of the function is zero on success or: 92<pre> 93 PCRE2_ERROR_NULL the argument <i>code</i> is NULL 94 PCRE2_ERROR_BADMAGIC the "magic number" was not found 95 PCRE2_ERROR_BADOPTION the value of <i>what</i> is invalid 96 PCRE2_ERROR_BADMODE the pattern was compiled in the wrong mode 97 PCRE2_ERROR_UNSET the requested information is not set 98</PRE> 99</P> 100<P> 101There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the 102<a href="pcre2api.html"><b>pcre2api</b></a> 103page and a description of the POSIX API in the 104<a href="pcre2posix.html"><b>pcre2posix</b></a> 105page. 106<p> 107Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE2 index page</a>. 108</p> 109