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SYNOPSIS

#include <pcre.h>

int pcre_get_stringnumber(const pcre *code, const char *name);

This convenience function finds the number of a named substring capturing parenthesis in a compiled pattern. Its arguments are:

  code    Compiled regular expression
  name    Name whose number is required

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