55 lines
2.1 KiB
Groff
55 lines
2.1 KiB
Groff
.TH PCRE2_SERIALIZE_ENCODE 3 "27 June 2018" "PCRE2 10.32"
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.SH NAME
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PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.rs
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.B #include <pcre2.h>
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.PP
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.nf
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.B int32_t pcre2_serialize_encode(const pcre2_code **\fIcodes\fP,
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.B " int32_t \fInumber_of_codes\fP, uint8_t **\fIserialized_bytes\fP,"
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.B " PCRE2_SIZE *\fIserialized_size\fP, pcre2_general_context *\fIgcontext\fP);"
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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This function encodes a list of compiled patterns into a byte stream that can
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be saved on disc or elsewhere. Note that this is not an abstract format like
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Java or .NET. Conversion of the byte stream back into usable compiled patterns
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can only happen on a host that is running the same version of PCRE2, with the
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same code unit width, and the host must also have the same endianness, pointer
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width and PCRE2_SIZE type. The arguments for \fBpcre2_serialize_encode()\fP
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are:
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\fIcodes\fP pointer to a vector containing the list
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\fInumber_of_codes\fP number of slots in the vector
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\fIserialized_bytes\fP set to point to the serialized byte stream
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\fIserialized_size\fP set to the number of bytes in the byte stream
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\fIgcontext\fP pointer to a general context or NULL
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The context argument is used to obtain memory for the byte stream. When the
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serialized data is no longer needed, it must be freed by calling
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\fBpcre2_serialize_free()\fP. The yield of the function is the number of
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serialized patterns, or one of the following negative error codes:
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PCRE2_ERROR_BADDATA \fInumber_of_codes\fP is zero or less
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PCRE2_ERROR_BADMAGIC mismatch of id bytes in one of the patterns
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PCRE2_ERROR_MEMORY memory allocation failed
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PCRE2_ERROR_MIXEDTABLES the patterns do not all use the same tables
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PCRE2_ERROR_NULL an argument other than \fIgcontext\fP is NULL
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PCRE2_ERROR_BADMAGIC means either that a pattern's code has been corrupted, or
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that a slot in the vector does not point to a compiled pattern.
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.P
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There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the
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.\" HREF
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\fBpcre2api\fP
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.\"
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page and a description of the serialization functions in the
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.\" HREF
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\fBpcre2serialize\fP
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.\"
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page.
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