The HTML documentation for PCRE comprises the following pages:
pcre | Introductory page |
pcreapi | PCRE's native API |
pcrebuild | Options for building PCRE |
pcrecallout | The callout facility |
pcrecompat | Compability with Perl |
pcregrep | The pcregrep command |
pcrepartial | Using PCRE for partial matching |
pcrepattern | Specification of the regular expressions supported by PCRE |
pcreperform | Some comments on performance |
pcreposix | The POSIX API to the PCRE library |
pcreprecompile | How to save and re-use compiled patterns |
pcresample | Description of the sample program |
pcretest | The pcretest command for testing PCRE |
There are also individual pages that summarize the interface for each function in the library:
pcre_compile | Compile a regular expression |
pcre_config | Show build-time configuration options |
pcre_copy_named_substring | Extract named substring into given buffer |
pcre_copy_substring | Extract numbered substring into given buffer |
pcre_exec | Match a compiled pattern to a subject string |
pcre_free_substring | Free extracted substring |
pcre_free_substring_list | Free list of extracted substrings |
pcre_fullinfo | Extract information about a pattern |
pcre_get_named_substring | Extract named substring into new memory |
pcre_get_stringnumber | Convert captured string name to number |
pcre_get_substring | Extract numbered substring into new memory |
pcre_get_substring_list | Extract all substrings into new memory |
pcre_info | Obsolete information extraction function |
pcre_maketables | Build character tables in current locale |
pcre_study | Study a compiled pattern |
pcre_version | Return PCRE version and release date |