1*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi<html> 2*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi<head> 3*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi<title>pcre2_get_startchar specification</title> 4*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi</head> 5*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#3399FF" vlink="#2222BB"> 6*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi<h1>pcre2_get_startchar man page</h1> 7*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi<p> 8*22dc650dSSadaf EbrahimiReturn to the <a href="index.html">PCRE2 index page</a>. 9*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi</p> 10*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi<p> 11*22dc650dSSadaf EbrahimiThis page is part of the PCRE2 HTML documentation. It was generated 12*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimiautomatically from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, 13*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimiplease consult the man page, in case the conversion went wrong. 14*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi<br> 15*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi<br><b> 16*22dc650dSSadaf EbrahimiSYNOPSIS 17*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi</b><br> 18*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi<P> 19*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi<b>#include <pcre2.h></b> 20*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi</P> 21*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi<P> 22*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi<b>PCRE2_SIZE pcre2_get_startchar(pcre2_match_data *<i>match_data</i>);</b> 23*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi</P> 24*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi<br><b> 25*22dc650dSSadaf EbrahimiDESCRIPTION 26*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi</b><br> 27*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi<P> 28*22dc650dSSadaf EbrahimiAfter a successful call of <b>pcre2_match()</b> that was passed the match block 29*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimithat is this function's argument, this function returns the code unit offset of 30*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimithe character at which the successful match started. For a non-partial match, 31*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimithis can be different to the value of <i>ovector[0]</i> if the pattern contains 32*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimithe \K escape sequence. After a partial match, however, this value is always 33*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimithe same as <i>ovector[0]</i> because \K does not affect the result of a 34*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimipartial match. 35*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi</P> 36*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi<P> 37*22dc650dSSadaf EbrahimiThere is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the 38*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi<a href="pcre2api.html"><b>pcre2api</b></a> 39*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimipage and a description of the POSIX API in the 40*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi<a href="pcre2posix.html"><b>pcre2posix</b></a> 41*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimipage. 42*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi<p> 43*22dc650dSSadaf EbrahimiReturn to the <a href="index.html">PCRE2 index page</a>. 44*22dc650dSSadaf Ebrahimi</p> 45