.TH PCRE2_GET_STARTCHAR 3 "24 October 2014" "PCRE2 10.00"
.SH NAME
PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <pcre2.h>
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.B PCRE2_SIZE pcre2_get_startchar(pcre2_match_data *\fImatch_data\fP);
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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After a successful call of \fBpcre2_match()\fP that was passed the match block
that is this function's argument, this function returns the code unit offset of
the character at which the successful match started. This can be different to
the value of \fIovector[0]\fP if the pattern contains the \eK escape sequence.
Note, however, that \eK has no effect for a partial match.
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There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the
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\fBpcre2api\fP
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page and a description of the POSIX API in the
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\fBpcre2posix\fP
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page.