PCRE2\_GET\_STARTCHAR(3) Library Functions Manual PCRE2\_GET\_STARTCHAR(3)

# [NAME](#NAME)

PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**#include <pcre2.h>**

```
PCRE2_SIZE pcre2_get_startchar(pcre2_match_data *match_data);
```

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

After a successful call of **pcre2\_match()** that was passed the match block that is this function's argument, this function returns the code unit offset of the character at which the successful match started. For a non-partial match, this can be different to the value of *ovector\[0]* if the pattern contains the \\K escape sequence. After a partial match, however, this value is always the same as *ovector\[0]* because \\K does not affect the result of a partial match.

There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the **pcre2api** page and a description of the POSIX API in the **pcre2posix** page.

25 October 2014 PCRE2 10.49

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Document: pcre2_get_startchar(3) from pcre2 10.49-r2 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2.git