| .TH PCRE2_GET_STARTCHAR 3 "24 October 2014" "PCRE2 10.00" |
| .SH NAME |
| PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API) |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .rs |
| .sp |
| .B #include <pcre2.h> |
| .PP |
| .nf |
| .B PCRE2_SIZE pcre2_get_startchar(pcre2_match_data *\fImatch_data\fP); |
| .fi |
| . |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .rs |
| .sp |
| After a successful call of \fBpcre2_match()\fP that was passed the match block |
| that is this function's argument, this function returns the code unit offset of |
| the character at which the successful match started. For a non-partial match, |
| this can be different to the value of \fIovector[0]\fP if the pattern contains |
| the \eK escape sequence. After a partial match, however, this value is always |
| the same as \fIovector[0]\fP because \eK does not affect the result of a |
| partial match. |
| .P |
| There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the |
| .\" HREF |
| \fBpcre2api\fP |
| .\" |
| page and a description of the POSIX API in the |
| .\" HREF |
| \fBpcre2posix\fP |
| .\" |
| page. |