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This file contains a concatenation of the PCRE man pages, converted to plain
text format for ease of searching with a text editor, or for use on systems
that do not have a man page processor. The small individual files that give
synopses of each function in the library have not been included. Neither has
the pcredemo program. There are separate text files for the pcregrep and
pcretest commands.
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PCRE(3) PCRE(3)
NAME
PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
INTRODUCTION
The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expres-
sion pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl, with
just a few differences. Some features that appeared in Python and PCRE
before they appeared in Perl are also available using the Python syn-
tax, there is some support for one or two .NET and Oniguruma syntax
items, and there is an option for requesting some minor changes that
give better JavaScript compatibility.
The current implementation of PCRE corresponds approximately with Perl
5.10, including support for UTF-8 encoded strings and Unicode general
category properties. However, UTF-8 and Unicode support has to be
explicitly enabled; it is not the default. The Unicode tables corre-
spond to Unicode release 5.2.0.
In addition to the Perl-compatible matching function, PCRE contains an
alternative function that matches the same compiled patterns in a dif-
ferent way. In certain circumstances, the alternative function has some
advantages. For a discussion of the two matching algorithms, see the
pcrematching page.
PCRE is written in C and released as a C library. A number of people
have written wrappers and interfaces of various kinds. In particular,
Google Inc. have provided a comprehensive C++ wrapper. This is now
included as part of the PCRE distribution. The pcrecpp page has details
of this interface. Other people's contributions can be found in the
Contrib directory at the primary FTP site, which is:
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre
Details of exactly which Perl regular expression features are and are
not supported by PCRE are given in separate documents. See the pcrepat-
tern and pcrecompat pages. There is a syntax summary in the pcresyntax
page.
Some features of PCRE can be included, excluded, or changed when the
library is built. The pcre_config() function makes it possible for a
client to discover which features are available. The features them-
selves are described in the pcrebuild page. Documentation about build-
ing PCRE for various operating systems can be found in the README and
NON-UNIX-USE files in the source distribution.
The library contains a number of undocumented internal functions and
data tables that are used by more than one of the exported external
functions, but which are not intended for use by external callers.
Their names all begin with "_pcre_", which hopefully will not provoke
any name clashes. In some environments, it is possible to control which
external symbols are exported when a shared library is built, and in
these cases the undocumented symbols are not exported.
USER DOCUMENTATION
The user documentation for PCRE comprises a number of different sec-
tions. In the "man" format, each of these is a separate "man page". In
the HTML format, each is a separate page, linked from the index page.
In the plain text format, all the sections, except the pcredemo sec-
tion, are concatenated, for ease of searching. The sections are as fol-
lows:
pcre this document
pcre-config show PCRE installation configuration information
pcreapi details of PCRE's native C API
pcrebuild options for building PCRE
pcrecallout details of the callout feature
pcrecompat discussion of Perl compatibility
pcrecpp details of the C++ wrapper
pcredemo a demonstration C program that uses PCRE
pcregrep description of the pcregrep command
pcrematching discussion of the two matching algorithms
pcrepartial details of the partial matching facility
pcrepattern syntax and semantics of supported
regular expressions
pcreperform discussion of performance issues
pcreposix the POSIX-compatible C API
pcreprecompile details of saving and re-using precompiled patterns
pcresample discussion of the pcredemo program
pcrestack discussion of stack usage
pcresyntax quick syntax reference
pcretest description of the pcretest testing command
In addition, in the "man" and HTML formats, there is a short page for
each C library function, listing its arguments and results.
LIMITATIONS
There are some size limitations in PCRE but it is hoped that they will
never in practice be relevant.
The maximum length of a compiled pattern is 65539 (sic) bytes if PCRE
is compiled with the default internal linkage size of 2. If you want to
process regular expressions that are truly enormous, you can compile
PCRE with an internal linkage size of 3 or 4 (see the README file in
the source distribution and the pcrebuild documentation for details).
In these cases the limit is substantially larger. However, the speed
of execution is slower.
All values in repeating quantifiers must be less than 65536.
There is no limit to the number of parenthesized subpatterns, but there
can be no more than 65535 capturing subpatterns.
The maximum length of name for a named subpattern is 32 characters, and
the maximum number of named subpatterns is 10000.
The maximum length of a subject string is the largest positive number
that an integer variable can hold. However, when using the traditional
matching function, PCRE uses recursion to handle subpatterns and indef-
inite repetition. This means that the available stack space may limit
the size of a subject string that can be processed by certain patterns.
For a discussion of stack issues, see the pcrestack documentation.
UTF-8 AND UNICODE PROPERTY SUPPORT
From release 3.3, PCRE has had some support for character strings
encoded in the UTF-8 format. For release 4.0 this was greatly extended
to cover most common requirements, and in release 5.0 additional sup-
port for Unicode general category properties was added.
In order process UTF-8 strings, you must build PCRE to include UTF-8
support in the code, and, in addition, you must call pcre_compile()
with the PCRE_UTF8 option flag, or the pattern must start with the
sequence (*UTF8). When either of these is the case, both the pattern
and any subject strings that are matched against it are treated as
UTF-8 strings instead of strings of 1-byte characters.
If you compile PCRE with UTF-8 support, but do not use it at run time,
the library will be a bit bigger, but the additional run time overhead
is limited to testing the PCRE_UTF8 flag occasionally, so should not be
very big.
If PCRE is built with Uni
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