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regex.h
Section: POSIX Programmer's Manual (0P)Updated: 2013
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regex.h --- regular expression matching typesSYNOPSIS
#include <regex.h>
DESCRIPTION
The <regex.h> header shall define the structures and symbolic constants used by the regcomp(), regexec(), regerror(), and regfree() functions. The <regex.h> header shall define the regex_t structure type, which shall include at least the following member:
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size_t re_nsub Number of parenthesized subexpressions.
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regoff_t rm_so Byte offset from start of string to start of substring. regoff_t rm_eo Byte offset from start of string of the first character after the end of substring.
- REG_EXTENDED
- Use Extended Regular Expressions.
- REG_ICASE
- Ignore case in match.
- REG_NOSUB
- Report only success or fail in regexec().
- REG_NEWLINE
- Change the handling of <newline>. The <regex.h> header shall define the following symbolic constants for the eflags parameter to the regexec() function:
- REG_NOTBOL
- The <circumflex> character ('^'), when taken as a special character, does not match the beginning of string.
- REG_NOTEOL
- The <dollar-sign> ('$'), when taken as a special character, does not match the end of string. The <regex.h> header shall define the following symbolic constants as error return values:
- REG_NOMATCH
- regexec() failed to match.
- REG_BADPAT
- Invalid regular expression.
- REG_ECOLLATE
- Invalid collating element referenced.
- REG_ECTYPE
- Invalid character class type referenced.
- REG_EESCAPE
- Trailing <backslash> character in pattern.
- REG_ESUBREG
- Number in \digit invalid or in error.
- REG_EBRACK
- dq[]dq imbalance.
- REG_EPAREN
- dq\(\)dq or dq()dq imbalance.
- REG_EBRACE
- dq\{\}dq imbalance.
- REG_BADBR
- Content of dq\{\}dq invalid: not a number, number too large, more than two numbers, first larger than second.
- REG_ERANGE
- Invalid endpoint in range expression.
- REG_ESPACE
- Out of memory.
- REG_BADRPT
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'?',
'*',
or
'+'
not preceded by valid regular expression.
The following shall be declared as functions and may also be defined
as macros. Function prototypes shall be provided.
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int regcomp(regex_t *restrict, const char *restrict, int); size_t regerror(int, const regex_t *restrict, char *restrict, size_t); int regexec(const regex_t *restrict, const char *restrict, size_t, regmatch_t [restrict], int); void regfree(regex_t *);
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The following sections are informative.
APPLICATION USAGE
None.RATIONALE
None.FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None.SEE ALSO
<sys_types.h> The System Interfaces volume of POSIX.1-2008, regcomp()COPYRIGHT
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