1<html> 2<head> 3<title>pcre2_set_max_varlookbehind specification</title> 4</head> 5<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#3399FF" vlink="#2222BB"> 6<h1>pcre2_set_max_varlookbehind man page</h1> 7<p> 8Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE2 index page</a>. 9</p> 10<p> 11This page is part of the PCRE2 HTML documentation. It was generated 12automatically from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, 13please consult the man page, in case the conversion went wrong. 14<br> 15<br><b> 16SYNOPSIS 17</b><br> 18<P> 19<b>#include <pcre2.h></b> 20</P> 21<P> 22<b>int pcre2_set_max_varlookbehind(pcre2_compile_context *<i>ccontext</i>,</b> 23<b> uint32_t <i>value</i>);</b> 24</P> 25<br><b> 26DESCRIPTION 27</b><br> 28<P> 29This sets a maximum length for the number of characters matched by a 30variable-length lookbehind assertion. The default is set when PCRE2 is built, 31with the ultimate default being 255, the same as Perl. Lookbehind assertions 32without a bounding length are not supported. The result is always zero. 33</P> 34<P> 35There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the 36<a href="pcre2api.html"><b>pcre2api</b></a> 37page and a description of the POSIX API in the 38<a href="pcre2posix.html"><b>pcre2posix</b></a> 39page. 40<p> 41Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE2 index page</a>. 42</p> 43