92 lines
3.8 KiB
Groff
92 lines
3.8 KiB
Groff
.TH PCRE2_SUBSTITUTE 3 "27 December 2019" "PCRE2 10.35"
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.SH NAME
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PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.rs
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.B #include <pcre2.h>
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.PP
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.nf
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.B int pcre2_substitute(const pcre2_code *\fIcode\fP, PCRE2_SPTR \fIsubject\fP,
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.B " PCRE2_SIZE \fIlength\fP, PCRE2_SIZE \fIstartoffset\fP,"
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.B " uint32_t \fIoptions\fP, pcre2_match_data *\fImatch_data\fP,"
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.B " pcre2_match_context *\fImcontext\fP, PCRE2_SPTR \fIreplacement\fP,"
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.B " PCRE2_SIZE \fIrlength\fP, PCRE2_UCHAR *\fIoutputbuffer\fP,"
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.B " PCRE2_SIZE *\fIoutlengthptr\fP);"
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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This function matches a compiled regular expression against a given subject
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string, using a matching algorithm that is similar to Perl's. It then makes a
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copy of the subject, substituting a replacement string for what was matched.
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Its arguments are:
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\fIcode\fP Points to the compiled pattern
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\fIsubject\fP Points to the subject string
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\fIlength\fP Length of the subject string
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\fIstartoffset\fP Offset in the subject at which to start matching
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\fIoptions\fP Option bits
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\fImatch_data\fP Points to a match data block, or is NULL
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\fImcontext\fP Points to a match context, or is NULL
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\fIreplacement\fP Points to the replacement string
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\fIrlength\fP Length of the replacement string
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\fIoutputbuffer\fP Points to the output buffer
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\fIoutlengthptr\fP Points to the length of the output buffer
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A match data block is needed only if you want to inspect the data from the
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match that is returned in that block or if PCRE2_SUBSTITUTE_MATCHED is set. A
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match context is needed only if you want to:
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Set up a callout function
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Set a matching offset limit
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Change the backtracking match limit
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Change the backtracking depth limit
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Set custom memory management in the match context
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The \fIlength\fP, \fIstartoffset\fP and \fIrlength\fP values are code
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units, not characters, as is the contents of the variable pointed at by
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\fIoutlengthptr\fP, which is updated to the actual length of the new string.
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The subject and replacement lengths can be given as PCRE2_ZERO_TERMINATED for
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zero-terminated strings. The options are:
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PCRE2_ANCHORED Match only at the first position
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PCRE2_ENDANCHORED Pattern can match only at end of subject
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PCRE2_NOTBOL Subject is not the beginning of a line
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PCRE2_NOTEOL Subject is not the end of a line
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PCRE2_NOTEMPTY An empty string is not a valid match
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.\" JOIN
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PCRE2_NOTEMPTY_ATSTART An empty string at the start of the
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subject is not a valid match
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PCRE2_NO_JIT Do not use JIT matching
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.\" JOIN
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PCRE2_NO_UTF_CHECK Do not check the subject or replacement
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for UTF validity (only relevant if
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PCRE2_UTF was set at compile time)
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PCRE2_SUBSTITUTE_EXTENDED Do extended replacement processing
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PCRE2_SUBSTITUTE_GLOBAL Replace all occurrences in the subject
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PCRE2_SUBSTITUTE_LITERAL The replacement string is literal
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PCRE2_SUBSTITUTE_MATCHED Use pre-existing match data for 1st match
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PCRE2_SUBSTITUTE_OVERFLOW_LENGTH If overflow, compute needed length
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PCRE2_SUBSTITUTE_UNKNOWN_UNSET Treat unknown group as unset
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PCRE2_SUBSTITUTE_UNSET_EMPTY Simple unset insert = empty string
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If PCRE2_SUBSTITUTE_LITERAL is set, PCRE2_SUBSTITUTE_EXTENDED,
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PCRE2_SUBSTITUTE_UNKNOWN_UNSET, and PCRE2_SUBSTITUTE_UNSET_EMPTY are ignored.
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.P
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The function returns the number of substitutions, which may be zero if there
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are no matches. The result may be greater than one only when
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PCRE2_SUBSTITUTE_GLOBAL is set. In the event of an error, a negative error code
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is returned.
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.P
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There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the
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.\" HREF
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\fBpcre2api\fP
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.\"
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page and a description of the POSIX API in the
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.\" HREF
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\fBpcre2posix\fP
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.\"
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page.
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