.TH PCRE 3
.SH NAME
PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <pcre.h>
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.B int pcre_copy_substring(const char *\fIsubject\fR, int *\fIovector\fR,
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.B int \fIstringcount\fR, int \fIstringnumber\fR, char *\fIbuffer\fR,
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.B int \fIbuffersize\fR);

.SH DESCRIPTION
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This is a convenience function for extracting a captured substring into a given
buffer. The arguments are:

  \fIsubject\fR       Subject that has been successfully matched
  \fIovector\fR       Offset vector that \fBpcre_exec()\fR used
  \fIstringcount\fR   Value returned by \fBpcre_exec()\fR
  \fIstringnumber\fR  Number of the required substring
  \fIbuffer\fR        Buffer to receive the string
  \fIbuffersize\fR    Size of buffer

The yield is the legnth of the string, PCRE_ERROR_NOMEMORY if the buffer was
too small, or PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING if the string number is invalid.

There is a complete description of the PCRE API in the
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