PCRE2_SET_MATCH_LIMIT(3)

💅 NAME 💅

PCRE2 — literally the Perl-compatible regular expressions library, but the revised API version 🦋 (yes bestie, "revised" is doing a lot of work in that sentence, it just means the newer, glowier API).

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <pcre2.h>

int pcre2_set_match_limit(pcre2_match_context *mcontext,
  uint32_t value);

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so picture this: you've got a match context, right? And this function? It sets the match limit field inside that match context. That's it. That's the whole job. 💅

And the result — the return value — is always zero. Every time. No cap. Zero. It's giving "I have one (1) consistent mood and it is 'success'" 😭✨

fr fr, if you want the full lore, there's a complete description of the PCRE2 native API over in the pcre2api page, and a description of the POSIX API in the pcre2posix page. go read those besties, they ate 👑

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that's the whole page, i fear — short and iconic 🫶

sign-off time 🎀: this masterpiece comes to you from PCRE2 10.47, dated 25 October 2014 — an absolute vintage moment, lowkey a throwback classic 💖✨