PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions .rs #include <pcre.h>

const char *pcre_version(void);

const char *pcre16_version(void);

const char *pcre32_version(void); .

.rs This function (even in the 16-bit and 32-bit libraries) returns a zero-terminated, 8-bit character string that gives the version number of the PCRE library and the date of its release.

There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the HREF
pcreapi
page and a description of the POSIX API in the HREF
pcreposix
page.