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| <h1>pcre2_get_startchar man page</h1> |
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| SYNOPSIS |
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| <b>#include <pcre2.h></b> |
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| <b>PCRE2_SIZE pcre2_get_startchar(pcre2_match_data *<i>match_data</i>);</b> |
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| DESCRIPTION |
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| After a successful call of <b>pcre2_match()</b> 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 <i>ovector[0]</i> if the pattern contains |
| the \K escape sequence. After a partial match, however, this value is always |
| the same as <i>ovector[0]</i> because \K does not affect the result of a |
| partial match. |
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