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PCRE(3)
NAME
  PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

SYNOPSIS
  #include <pcre.h>

  int pcre_copy_substring(const char *subject, int *ovector,
       int stringcount, int stringnumber, char *buffer,
       int buffersize);

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

    subject	  Subject that has been successfully matched
    ovector	  Offset vector that pcre_exec() used
    stringcount	  Value returned by pcre_exec()
    stringnumber  Number of the required substring
    buffer	  Buffer to receive the string
    buffersize	  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 pcreapi page.

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