PCRE_VERSION(3)

💖 PCRE_VERSION 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the PCRE girlies' corner of the Library Functions Manual ✨ this is the PCRE_VERSION(3) page and we're gonna talk about how to ask the library "hey babe what version are you" 💅

✨ NAME ✨

PCRE — Perl-compatible regular expressions 🦋 that's the whole vibe, that's the brand, periodt.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

okay so first you gotta let her in, and you do that like this:

#include <pcre.h>

and then — three whole icons, one for each flavour of library 💅:

const char *pcre_version(void);

const char *pcre16_version(void);

const char *pcre32_version(void);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this function — and yes, even in the 16-bit and 32-bit libraries, she does not switch up on you, she's consistent 💖 — hands you back a zero-terminated, 8-bit character string. and what's inside that string? two things and two things only:

• the version number</> of the PCRE library 👑
• the date of its release</> 🗓️

that's it. that's the tea. no cap.

ngl if you want the whole lore, there's more reading for you:

• there's a complete description of the PCRE native API</> over on the pcreapi page 🫶
• and a description of the POSIX API</> over on the pcreposix page 💜

go read those if you're feeling like the main character of your own regex journey fr fr 🌈

bestie reminder: this page is just the vibe check function. it tells you who you're working with, not how to work with her. for that, go see pcreapi and pcreposix 💅

and that's the page!! this lil gem comes to you from PCRE 8.30, dated 24 June 2012 — yeah she's an icon, she's been iconic, she remains iconic 💖✨🎀 slay, bye bestie 🦋