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NAME

       PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions


SYNOPSIS


       #include <pcre.h>

       int pcre_get_stringnumber(const pcre *code,
            const char *name);


DESCRIPTION


       This convenience function finds the number of a named substring captur-
       ing parenthesis in a compiled pattern. Its arguments are:

         code    Compiled regular expression
         name    Name whose number is required

       The yield of the function is the number of the parenthesis if the  name
       is found, or PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING otherwise.

       There  is  a complete description of the PCRE native API in the pcreapi
       page and a description of the POSIX API in the pcreposix page.

                                                      PCRE_GET_STRINGNUMBER(3)

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