.TH PCRE2_SET_MAX_PATTERN_LENGTH 3 "05 November 2015" "PCRE2 10.21"
.SH NAME
PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <pcre2.h>
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.B int pcre2_set_max_pattern_length(pcre2_compile_context *\fIccontext\fP,
.B "  PCRE2_SIZE \fIvalue\fP);"
.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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This function sets, in a compile context, the maximum length (in code units) of
the pattern that can be compiled. The result is always zero.
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There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the
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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.