PCRE2_GET_OVECTOR_COUNT(3)

💖 PCRE2_GET_OVECTOR_COUNT(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Library Functions Manual entry for PCRE2 — literally Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API) ✨. This one is a tiny little icon function, and it's about to be your fave: pcre2_get_ovector_count.

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✨ NAME ✨

PCRE2 — Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API) 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <pcre2.h>

uint32_t pcre2_get_ovector_count(pcre2_match_data *match_data);

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So what does this function do? It returns the number of pairs of offsets in the ovector that forms part of the given match data block. That's the whole vibe. No cap. 🫶

If you want the full lore, there's a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the pcre2api page, and a description of the POSIX API in the pcre2posix page. Go read those when you're ready to go deeper, bestie 💖.

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that's the whole page! brought to you by PCRE2 10.47, dated 25 October 2014 — this has been PCRE2_GET_OVECTOR_COUNT(3), byeee 🎀💅