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<title>pcresample specification</title>
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<h1>pcresample man page</h1>
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Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>.
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This page is part of the PCRE HTML documentation. It was generated automatically
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from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, please consult the
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man page, in case the conversion went wrong.
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<br><b>
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PCRE SAMPLE PROGRAM
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A simple, complete demonstration program, to get you started with using PCRE,
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is supplied in the file <i>pcredemo.c</i> in the PCRE distribution.
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The program compiles the regular expression that is its first argument, and
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matches it against the subject string in its second argument. No PCRE options
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are set, and default character tables are used. If matching succeeds, the
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program outputs the portion of the subject that matched, together with the
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contents of any captured substrings.
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If the -g option is given on the command line, the program then goes on to
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check for further matches of the same regular expression in the same subject
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string. The logic is a little bit tricky because of the possibility of matching
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an empty string. Comments in the code explain what is going on.
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If PCRE is installed in the standard include and library directories for your
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system, you should be able to compile the demonstration program using this
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command:
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gcc -o pcredemo pcredemo.c -lpcre
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</pre>
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If PCRE is installed elsewhere, you may need to add additional options to the
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command line. For example, on a Unix-like system that has PCRE installed in
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<i>/usr/local</i>, you can compile the demonstration program using a command
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like this:
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<pre>
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gcc -o pcredemo -I/usr/local/include pcredemo.c -L/usr/local/lib -lpcre
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</pre>
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Once you have compiled the demonstration program, you can run simple tests like
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this:
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<pre>
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./pcredemo 'cat|dog' 'the cat sat on the mat'
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./pcredemo -g 'cat|dog' 'the dog sat on the cat'
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</pre>
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Note that there is a much more comprehensive test program, called
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<a href="pcretest.html"><b>pcretest</b>,</a>
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which supports many more facilities for testing regular expressions and the
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PCRE library. The <b>pcredemo</b> program is provided as a simple coding
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example.
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On some operating systems (e.g. Solaris), when PCRE is not installed in the
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standard library directory, you may get an error like this when you try to run
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<b>pcredemo</b>:
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ld.so.1: a.out: fatal: libpcre.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory
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</pre>
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This is caused by the way shared library support works on those systems. You
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need to add
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<pre>
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-R/usr/local/lib
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(for example) to the compile command to get round this problem.
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</P>
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<br><b>
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AUTHOR
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</b><br>
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Philip Hazel
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University Computing Service
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Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
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<br><b>
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REVISION
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Last updated: 23 January 2008
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Copyright © 1997-2008 University of Cambridge.
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Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>.
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