PCRE module API

(PCRE:PCRE-VERSION)

Return version information as 3 values: descriptive STRING and 2 FIXNUMs: major and minor numbers.

(PCRE:PCRE-CONFIG type)

Return some information about the PCRE build configuration. type is one of

:UTF8

:NEWLINE

:LINK-SIZE

:POSIX-MALLOC-THRESHOLD

:MATCH-LIMIT

(PCRE:PCRE-COMPILE string &KEY :STUDY :IGNORE-CASE :MULTILINE :DOTALL :EXTENDED :ANCHORED :DOLLAR-ENDONLY :EXTRA :NOTBOL :NOTEOL :UNGREADY :NOTEMPTY :NO-AUTO-CAPTURE)

Compile a pattern, optionally study it.

(PCRE:PATTERN-INFO pattern &OPTIONAL request)

Return some information about the pattern, such as

:OPTIONS

:SIZE

:CAPTURECOUNT

:BACKREFMAX

:FIRSTBYTE

:FIRSTTABLE

:LASTLITERAL

:NAMEENTRYSIZE

:NAMECOUNT

:NAMETABLE

:STUDYSIZE

(PCRE:PCRE-NAME-TO-INDEX pattern name)

Convert the name of the sub-pattern to an index in the return vector.

(PCRE:PCRE-EXEC pattern string &KEY :WORK-SPACE :DFA :BOOLEAN :OFFSET :ANCHORED :NOTBOL :NOTEOL :NOTEMPTY :PARTIAL :DFA-SHORTEST :DFA-RESTART)

Execute the compiled pattern against the string at the given offset with the given options. Returns NIL if no matches or a VECTOR of LENGTH CAPTURECOUNT+1 of PCRE:MATCH structures, unless :BOOLEAN was non-NIL, in which case return T as an indicator of success, but do not allocate anything.

:DFA argument determines whether pcre_dfa_exec is used instead of pcre_exec (PCRE v6 and better).

:WORK-SPACE is only used for :DFA and defaults to 20.

(PCRE:MATCH-START match)
(PCRE:MATCH-END match)

Return the start and end of the match. SETF-able.

(PCRE:MATCH-SUBSTRING match string)

Return the substring of string bounded by match.

(PCRE:MATCH-STRINGS return-vector string)

Return all substrings for all matches found by PCRE:PCRE-EXEC.

(PCRE:MATCH-STRING return-vector which string &OPTIONAL pattern)

Return the substring that matches the given sub-pattern. If which is a name of the sub-pattern (as opposed to its number), pattern must be supplied.

(PCRE:PCRE-MATCHER pattern)

A valid value for CUSTOM:*APROPOS-MATCHER*.