pcre2_get_startchar
Manual page for PCRE2 10.50-DEV
Name
pcre2_get_startchar - get the starting character offset
Synopsis
#include <pcre2.h>
PCRE2_SIZE pcre2_get_startchar(pcre2_match_data *match_data);Description
After a successful call of pcre2_match() that was passed the match block
that is this function’s argument, this function returns the code unit offset of
the character at which the successful match started. For a non-partial match,
this can be different to the value of ovector[0] if the pattern contains
the \K escape sequence. After a partial match, however, this value is always
the same as ovector[0] because \K does not affect the result of a
partial match.
There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the
pcre2api
page and a description of the POSIX API in the
pcre2posix
page.