pcreposix.h

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/*************************************************
*       Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions      *
*************************************************/

#ifndef _PCREPOSIX_H
#define _PCREPOSIX_H

/* This is the header for the POSIX wrapper interface to the PCRE Perl-
Compatible Regular Expression library. It defines the things POSIX says should
be there. I hope.

            Copyright (c) 1997-2008 University of Cambridge

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/* Have to include stdlib.h in order to ensure that size_t is defined. */

#include <stdlib.h>

/* Allow for C++ users */

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/* Options, mostly defined by POSIX, but with a couple of extras. */

#define REG_ICASE     0x0001
#define REG_NEWLINE   0x0002
#define REG_NOTBOL    0x0004
#define REG_NOTEOL    0x0008
#define REG_DOTALL    0x0010   /* NOT defined by POSIX. */
#define REG_NOSUB     0x0020
#define REG_UTF8      0x0040   /* NOT defined by POSIX. */
#define REG_STARTEND  0x0080   /* BSD feature: pass subject string by so,eo */

/* This is not used by PCRE, but by defining it we make it easier
to slot PCRE into existing programs that make POSIX calls. */

#define REG_EXTENDED  0

/* Error values. Not all these are relevant or used by the wrapper. */

enum {
  REG_ASSERT = 1,  /* internal error ? */
  REG_BADBR,       /* invalid repeat counts in {} */
  REG_BADPAT,      /* pattern error */
  REG_BADRPT,      /* ? * + invalid */
  REG_EBRACE,      /* unbalanced {} */
  REG_EBRACK,      /* unbalanced [] */
  REG_ECOLLATE,    /* collation error - not relevant */
  REG_ECTYPE,      /* bad class */
  REG_EESCAPE,     /* bad escape sequence */
  REG_EMPTY,       /* empty expression */
  REG_EPAREN,      /* unbalanced () */
  REG_ERANGE,      /* bad range inside [] */
  REG_ESIZE,       /* expression too big */
  REG_ESPACE,      /* failed to get memory */
  REG_ESUBREG,     /* bad back reference */
  REG_INVARG,      /* bad argument */
  REG_NOMATCH      /* match failed */
};


/* The structure representing a compiled regular expression. */

typedef struct {
  void *re_pcre;
  size_t re_nsub;
  size_t re_erroffset;
} regex_t;

/* The structure in which a captured offset is returned. */

typedef int regoff_t;

typedef struct {
  regoff_t rm_so;
  regoff_t rm_eo;
} regmatch_t;

/* When an application links to a PCRE DLL in Windows, the symbols that are
imported have to be identified as such. When building PCRE, the appropriate
export settings are needed, and are set in pcreposix.c before including this
file. */

#if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(PCRE_STATIC) && !defined(PCREPOSIX_EXP_DECL)
#  define PCREPOSIX_EXP_DECL  extern __declspec(dllimport)
#  define PCREPOSIX_EXP_DEFN  __declspec(dllimport)
#endif

/* By default, we use the standard "extern" declarations. */

#ifndef PCREPOSIX_EXP_DECL
#  ifdef __cplusplus
#    define PCREPOSIX_EXP_DECL  extern "C"
#    define PCREPOSIX_EXP_DEFN  extern "C"
#  else
#    define PCREPOSIX_EXP_DECL  extern
#    define PCREPOSIX_EXP_DEFN  extern
#  endif
#endif

/* The functions */

PCREPOSIX_EXP_DECL int regcomp(regex_t *, const char *, int);
PCREPOSIX_EXP_DECL int regexec(const regex_t *, const char *, size_t,
                     regmatch_t *, int);
PCREPOSIX_EXP_DECL size_t regerror(int, const regex_t *, char *, size_t);
PCREPOSIX_EXP_DECL void regfree(regex_t *);

#ifdef __cplusplus
}   /* extern "C" */
#endif

#endif /* End of pcreposix.h */

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