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REGEX.H 3HEAD "Sep 9, 2004"
NAME
regex.h, regex - regular expression matching types
SYNOPSIS

#include <regex.h>
DESCRIPTION

The <regex.h> header defines the structures and symbolic constants used by the regcomp(), regexec(), regerror(), and regfree() functions. See regcomp(3C).

The structure type regex_t contains the following member:

size_t re_nsub number of parenthesized subexpressions

The type size_t is defined as described in <sys/types.h>. See types.h(3HEAD).

The type regoff_t is defined as a signed integer type that can hold the largest value that can be stored in either a type off_t or type ssize_t. The structure type regmatch_t contains the following members:

regoff_t rm_so byte offset from start of string to start
 of substring
regoff_t rm_eo byte offset from start of string of the
 first character after the end of substring

Values for the cflags parameter to the regcomp function are as follows: REG_EXTENDED

use extended regular expressions

REG_ICASE

ignore case in match

REG_NOSUB

report only success or fail in regexec()

REG_NEWLINE

change the handling of NEWLINE character

Values for the eflags parameter to the regexec() function are as follows: REG_NOTBOL

The circumflex character (^), when taken as a special character, does not match the beginning of string.

REG_NOTEOL

The dollar sign ($), when taken as a special character, does not match the end of string.

The following constants are defined as error return values: REG_NOMATCH

regexec() failed to match.

REG_BADPAT

Invalid regular expression.

REG_ECOLLATE

Invalid collating element referenced.

REG_ECTYPE

Invalid character class type referenced.

REG_EESCAPE

Trailing '\e' in pattern.

REG_ESUBREG

Number in \digit invalid or in error.

REG_EBRACK

"[]" imbalance.

REG_EPAREN

"\e(\e)" or "()" imbalance.

REG_EBRACE

"\{\}" imbalance.

REG_BADBR

Content of "\{\}" invalid: not a number, number too large, more than two numbers, first larger than second.

REG_ERANGE

Invalid endpoint in range expression.

REG_ESPACE

Out of memory.

REG_BADRPT

'?', '*', or '+' not preceded by valid regular expression.

REG_ENOSYS

Reserved.

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability Standard
SEE ALSO

regcomp(3C), types.h(3HEAD), attributes(5), standards(5)