PCRE2_GET_STARTCHAR(3)                        FreeBSD Library Functions Manual

NAME
       PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)

SYNOPSIS
       #include <pcre2.h>

       PCRE2_SIZE pcre2_get_startchar(pcre2_match_data *match_data);

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.

PCRE2 10.00                     24 October 2014         PCRE2_GET_STARTCHAR(3)