textsearch_find_continuous(9)

✨ textsearch_find_continuous ✨

Okay bestie, welcome to the textsearch_find_continuous(9) page from the Kernel API Manual 💅 this one's a little cutie, ngl — it's the simpler, chiller sibling of textsearch_find, made specifically for continuous/linear data 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

unsigned int textsearch_find_continuous (struct ts_config *conf , struct
ts_state *state , const void *data , unsigned int len );

Like, that's the whole signature 🎀 she takes four things and gives you back an unsigned int, periodt.

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• conf — the search configuration, i.e. how you've set this whole search situation up 💅
• state — the search state, she's holding the vibes between calls 🫶
• data — the data you're actually searching in, the main character of this operation 👑
• len — the length of data, because we gotta know where it ends, fr fr

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So like — this is a simplified version of textsearch_find, but specifically for continuous/linear data ✨ no cap. Once you've found your first match, you call textsearch_next to go get the subsequent matches, one after another, and she just keeps feeding you results 🍓

It returns the position of the first occurrence of the pattern 💖 and if there's literally no occurrence found? It returns UINT_MAX 💀 that's the "nope, nothing here bestie" answer.

Heads up: the return is either a real position or UINT_MAX — so don't go treating UINT_MAX like a normal index, okay? 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./lib/textsearch.c, plus these iconic siblings:

• ts_intro(9)
• textsearch_register(9)
• textsearch_unregister(9)
• textsearch_prepare(9)
• textsearch_destroy(9)

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That's the whole page, bestie — you ate that 💅✨

Sign-off cuteness: this one lives in ./lib, dated October 2026, and it's from the Kernel API Manual 🎀🦋 go forth and search continuously, ily 💜