diff -r 000000000000 -r 7f656887cf89 libraries/spcre/libpcre/pcre/doc/pcresample.3 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/libraries/spcre/libpcre/pcre/doc/pcresample.3 Wed Jun 23 15:52:26 2010 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +.TH PCRESAMPLE 3 +.SH NAME +PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions +.SH "PCRE SAMPLE PROGRAM" +.rs +.sp +A simple, complete demonstration program, to get you started with using PCRE, +is supplied in the file \fIpcredemo.c\fP in the PCRE distribution. +.P +The program compiles the regular expression that is its first argument, and +matches it against the subject string in its second argument. No PCRE options +are set, and default character tables are used. If matching succeeds, the +program outputs the portion of the subject that matched, together with the +contents of any captured substrings. +.P +If the -g option is given on the command line, the program then goes on to +check for further matches of the same regular expression in the same subject +string. The logic is a little bit tricky because of the possibility of matching +an empty string. Comments in the code explain what is going on. +.P +If PCRE is installed in the standard include and library directories for your +system, you should be able to compile the demonstration program using this +command: +.sp + gcc -o pcredemo pcredemo.c -lpcre +.sp +If PCRE is installed elsewhere, you may need to add additional options to the +command line. For example, on a Unix-like system that has PCRE installed in +\fI/usr/local\fP, you can compile the demonstration program using a command +like this: +.sp +.\" JOINSH + gcc -o pcredemo -I/usr/local/include pcredemo.c \e + -L/usr/local/lib -lpcre +.sp +Once you have compiled the demonstration program, you can run simple tests like +this: +.sp + ./pcredemo 'cat|dog' 'the cat sat on the mat' + ./pcredemo -g 'cat|dog' 'the dog sat on the cat' +.sp +Note that there is a much more comprehensive test program, called +.\" HREF +\fBpcretest\fP, +.\" +which supports many more facilities for testing regular expressions and the +PCRE library. The \fBpcredemo\fP program is provided as a simple coding +example. +.P +On some operating systems (e.g. Solaris), when PCRE is not installed in the +standard library directory, you may get an error like this when you try to run +\fBpcredemo\fP: +.sp + ld.so.1: a.out: fatal: libpcre.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory +.sp +This is caused by the way shared library support works on those systems. You +need to add +.sp + -R/usr/local/lib +.sp +(for example) to the compile command to get round this problem. +. +. +.SH AUTHOR +.rs +.sp +.nf +Philip Hazel +University Computing Service +Cambridge CB2 3QH, England. +.fi +. +. +.SH REVISION +.rs +.sp +.nf +Last updated: 23 January 2008 +Copyright (c) 1997-2008 University of Cambridge. +.fi