1 .TH PCRE2_GET_STARTCHAR 3 "24 October 2014" "PCRE2 10.00"
3 PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)
10 .B PCRE2_SIZE pcre2_get_startchar(pcre2_match_data *\fImatch_data\fP);
16 After a successful call of \fBpcre2_match()\fP that was passed the match block
17 that is this function's argument, this function returns the code unit offset of
18 the character at which the successful match started. For a non-partial match,
19 this can be different to the value of \fIovector[0]\fP if the pattern contains
20 the \eK escape sequence. After a partial match, however, this value is always
21 the same as \fIovector[0]\fP because \eK does not affect the result of a
24 There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the
28 page and a description of the POSIX API in the