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.TH PCRE2_SUBSTRING_LENGTH_BYNAME 3 "21 October 2014" "PCRE2 10.47-DEV"
.SH NAME
PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)
.SH SYNOPSIS
.rs
.sp
.B #include <pcre2.h>
.PP
.nf
.B int pcre2_substring_length_byname(pcre2_match_data *\fImatch_data\fP,
.B " PCRE2_SPTR \fIname\fP, PCRE2_SIZE *\fIlength\fP);"
.fi
.
.SH DESCRIPTION
.rs
.sp
This function returns the length of a matched substring, identified by name.
The arguments are:
.sp
\fImatch_data\fP The match data block for the match
\fIname\fP The substring name
\fIlength\fP Where to return the length, or NULL
.sp
The third argument may be NULL if all you want to know is whether or not a
substring is set. The yield is zero on success, or a negative error code
otherwise.
.P
There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the
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\fBpcre2api\fP
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page and a description of the POSIX API in the
.\" HREF
\fBpcre2posix\fP
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page.