3 PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
10 .B int pcre_dfa_exec(const pcre *\fIcode\fP, "const pcre_extra *\fIextra\fP,"
12 .B "const char *\fIsubject\fP," int \fIlength\fP, int \fIstartoffset\fP,
14 .B int \fIoptions\fP, int *\fIovector\fP, int \fIovecsize\fP,
16 .B int *\fIworkspace\fP, int \fIwscount\fP);
21 This function matches a compiled regular expression against a given subject
22 string, using an alternative matching algorithm that scans the subject string
23 just once (\fInot\fP Perl-compatible). Note that the main, Perl-compatible,
24 matching function is \fBpcre_exec()\fP. The arguments for this function are:
26 \fIcode\fP Points to the compiled pattern
27 \fIextra\fP Points to an associated \fBpcre_extra\fP structure,
29 \fIsubject\fP Points to the subject string
30 \fIlength\fP Length of the subject string, in bytes
31 \fIstartoffset\fP Offset in bytes in the subject at which to
33 \fIoptions\fP Option bits
34 \fIovector\fP Points to a vector of ints for result offsets
35 \fIovecsize\fP Number of elements in the vector
36 \fIworkspace\fP Points to a vector of ints used as working space
37 \fIwscount\fP Number of elements in the vector
41 PCRE_ANCHORED Match only at the first position
42 PCRE_BSR_ANYCRLF \eR matches only CR, LF, or CRLF
43 PCRE_BSR_UNICODE \eR matches all Unicode line endings
44 PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY Recognize any Unicode newline sequence
45 PCRE_NEWLINE_ANYCRLF Recognize CR, LF, & CRLF as newline sequences
46 PCRE_NEWLINE_CR Recognize CR as the only newline sequence
47 PCRE_NEWLINE_CRLF Recognize CRLF as the only newline sequence
48 PCRE_NEWLINE_LF Recognize LF as the only newline sequence
49 PCRE_NOTBOL Subject is not the beginning of a line
50 PCRE_NOTEOL Subject is not the end of a line
51 PCRE_NOTEMPTY An empty string is not a valid match
52 PCRE_NOTEMPTY_ATSTART An empty string at the start of the subject
54 PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE Do not do "start-match" optimizations
55 PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK Do not check the subject for UTF-8
56 validity (only relevant if PCRE_UTF8
57 was set at compile time)
58 PCRE_PARTIAL ) Return PCRE_ERROR_PARTIAL for a partial
59 PCRE_PARTIAL_SOFT ) match if no full matches are found
60 PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD Return PCRE_ERROR_PARTIAL for a partial match
61 even if there is a full match as well
62 PCRE_DFA_SHORTEST Return only the shortest match
63 PCRE_DFA_RESTART Restart after a partial match
65 There are restrictions on what may appear in a pattern when using this matching
66 function. Details are given in the
70 documentation. For details of partial matching, see the
76 A \fBpcre_extra\fP structure contains the following fields:
78 \fIflags\fP Bits indicating which fields are set
79 \fIstudy_data\fP Opaque data from \fBpcre_study()\fP
80 \fImatch_limit\fP Limit on internal resource use
81 \fImatch_limit_recursion\fP Limit on internal recursion depth
82 \fIcallout_data\fP Opaque data passed back to callouts
83 \fItables\fP Points to character tables or is NULL
85 The flag bits are PCRE_EXTRA_STUDY_DATA, PCRE_EXTRA_MATCH_LIMIT,
86 PCRE_EXTRA_MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION, PCRE_EXTRA_CALLOUT_DATA, and
87 PCRE_EXTRA_TABLES. For this matching function, the \fImatch_limit\fP and
88 \fImatch_limit_recursion\fP fields are not used, and must not be set.
90 There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the
94 page and a description of the POSIX API in the