RULEXDB_LEXBASE(3)

💖 RULEXDB_LEXBASE(3) 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair because we're about to talk about rulexdb_lexbase from the rulexdb library functions manual and honestly? she's kind of iconic. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

rulexdb_lexbase — the girl whose whole job is trying to find the lexical base for a word you hand her. no cap, that's the gig. 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <rulexdb.h>

int rulexdb_lexbase(RULEXDB *rulexdb, const char *s, char *t, int n);

like… look at her. four arguments. serving c function energy. 💅

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the tea, fr fr. The rulexdb_lexbase() function goes scanning through the Classifiers ruleset, and it starts from n — and heads up, n must be positive, that's non-negotiable, it's giving boundaries — while it tries to match the word that s points at. 🫶

when the match actually succeeds (slay), the lexical base gets constructed in the memory area that t points at, and listen — that area must have enough space for it, like you have to actually prepare room, she is not going to build it in a closet. Then the function returns the number of the matched rule, or 0 if no match was found. 🧚

and the rulexdb argument? that's a reference to the rulex database we're searching in. she needs to know where to look. 👑

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

• returns the number of the matched rule — and that number is always positive, okay, always 🌈
• returns 0 when no match was found
• returns a negative error code if something went wrong 😭

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💀 ERRORS 💀

• RULEXDB_FAILURE — the referenced database has not been opened, or the internal data structures are corrupted, or some other general failure has occurred. it's giving disaster. 🙈
• RULEXDB_EMALLOC — internal memory allocation error. the mallocs said no. 💔
• RULEXDB_EPARM — invalid parameters are specified. bestie. check your args. 😤

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• rulexdb_classify(3)
• rulexdb_close(3)
• rulexdb_dataset_name(3)
• rulexdb_discard_dictionary(3)
• rulexdb_discard_ruleset(3)
• rulexdb_fetch_rule(3)
• rulexdb_load_ruleset(3)
• rulexdb_open(3)
• rulexdb_remove_item(3)
• rulexdb_remove_rule(3)
• rulexdb_remove_this_item(3)
• rulexdb_retrieve_item(3)
• rulexdb_search(3)
• rulexdb_seq(3)
• rulexdb_subscribe_item(3)
• rulexdb_subscribe_rule(3)

the whole friend group, honestly. go say hi. 💖

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Igor B. Poretsky <poretsky@mlbox.ru>. the main character who wrote her. periodt. ✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie — Library Functions Manual, RULEXDB_LEXBASE(3), dated February 20, 2012, mwah 💅💖