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/*************************************************
* PCRE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM *
*************************************************/
/* This is a demonstration program to illustrate the most straightforward ways
of calling the PCRE regular expression library from a C program. See the
pcresample documentation for a short discussion ("man pcresample" if you have
the PCRE man pages installed).
In Unix-like environments, if PCRE is installed in your standard system
libraries, you should be able to compile this program using this command:
gcc -Wall pcredemo.c -lpcre -o pcredemo
If PCRE is not installed in a standard place, it is likely to be installed with
support for the pkg-config mechanism. If you have pkg-config, you can compile
this program using this command:
gcc -Wall pcredemo.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs libpcre` -o pcredemo
If you do not have pkg-config, you may have to use this:
gcc -Wall pcredemo.c -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib \
-R/usr/local/lib -lpcre -o pcredemo
Replace "/usr/local/include" and "/usr/local/lib" with wherever the include and
library files for PCRE are installed on your system. Only some operating
systems (e.g. Solaris) use the -R option.
Building under Windows:
If you want to statically link this program against a non-dll .a file, you must
define PCRE_STATIC before including pcre.h, otherwise the pcre_malloc() and
pcre_free() exported functions will be declared __declspec(dllimport), with
unwanted results. So in this environment, uncomment the following line. */
/* #define PCRE_STATIC */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <pcre.h>
#define OVECCOUNT 30 /* should be a multiple of 3 */
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
pcre *re;
const char *error;
char *pattern;
char *subject;
unsigned char *name_table;
unsigned int option_bits;
int erroffset;
int find_all;
int crlf_is_newline;
int namecount;
int name_entry_size;
int ovector[OVECCOUNT];
int subject_length;
int rc, i;
int utf8;
/**************************************************************************
* First, sort out the command line. There is only one possible option at *
* the moment, "-g" to request repeated matching to find all occurrences, *
* like Perl's /g option. We set the variable find_all to a non-zero value *
* if the -g option is present. Apart from that, there must be exactly two *
* arguments. *
**************************************************************************/
find_all = 0;
for (i = 1; i < argc; i++)
{
if (strcmp(argv[i], "-g") == 0) find_all = 1;
else break;
}
/* After the options, we require exactly two arguments, which are the pattern,
and the subject string. */
if (argc - i != 2)
{
printf("Two arguments required: a regex and a subject string\n");
return 1;
}
pattern = argv[i];
subject = argv[i+1];
subject_length = (int)strlen(subject);
/*************************************************************************
* Now we are going to compile the regular expression pattern, and handle *
* and errors that are detected. *
*************************************************************************/
re = pcre_compile(
pattern, /* the pattern */
0, /* default options */
&error, /* for error message */
&erroffset, /* for error offset */
NULL); /* use default character tables */
/* Compilation failed: print t