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Elliott Hughes9bc971b2018-07-27 13:23:14 -07001.TH PCRE2_MAKETABLES 3 "17 April 2017" "PCRE2 10.30"
Janis Danisevskis112c9cc2016-03-31 13:35:25 +01002.SH NAME
3PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)
4.SH SYNOPSIS
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7.B #include <pcre2.h>
8.PP
9.SM
Elliott Hughes2dbd7d22020-06-03 14:32:37 -070010.B const uint8_t *pcre2_maketables(pcre2_general_context *\fIgcontext\fP);
Janis Danisevskis112c9cc2016-03-31 13:35:25 +010011.
12.SH DESCRIPTION
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Elliott Hughes9bc971b2018-07-27 13:23:14 -070015This function builds a set of character tables for character code points that
16are less than 256. These can be passed to \fBpcre2_compile()\fP in a compile
17context in order to override the internal, built-in tables (which were either
18defaulted or made by \fBpcre2_maketables()\fP when PCRE2 was compiled). See the
Janis Danisevskis112c9cc2016-03-31 13:35:25 +010019.\" HREF
20\fBpcre2_set_character_tables()\fP
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22page. You might want to do this if you are using a non-standard locale.
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24If the argument is NULL, \fBmalloc()\fP is used to get memory for the tables.
25Otherwise it must point to a general context, which can supply pointers to a
26custom memory manager. The function yields a pointer to the tables.
27.P
28There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the
29.\" HREF
30\fBpcre2api\fP
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32page and a description of the POSIX API in the
33.\" HREF
34\fBpcre2posix\fP
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36page.