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PCRE2_SET_NEWLINE(3) Library Functions Manual PCRE2_SET_NEWLINE(3)

NAME

PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)

SYNOPSIS

#include <pcre2.h>

int pcre2_set_newline(pcre2_compile_context *ccontext,
  uint32_t value);

DESCRIPTION

This function sets the newline convention within a compile context. This specifies which character(s) are recognized as newlines when compiling and matching patterns. The second argument must be one of:


PCRE2_NEWLINE_CR Carriage return only
PCRE2_NEWLINE_LF Linefeed only
PCRE2_NEWLINE_CRLF CR followed by LF only
PCRE2_NEWLINE_ANYCRLF Any of the above
PCRE2_NEWLINE_ANY Any Unicode newline sequence

The result is zero for success or PCRE2_ERROR_BADDATA if the second argument is invalid.

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.

22 October 2014 PCRE2 10.00