pcre_study specification

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SYNOPSIS

#include <pcre.h>

pcre_extra *pcre_study(const pcre *code, int options, const char **errptr);

DESCRIPTION

This function studies a compiled pattern, to see if additional information can be extracted that might speed up matching. Its arguments are:

      code       A compiled regular expression
      options    Options for pcre_study()
      errptr     Where to put an error message

If the function returns NULL, either it could not find any additional information, or there was an error. You can tell the difference by looking at the error value. It is NULL in first case.

There are currently no options defined; the value of the second argument should always be zero.

There is a complete description of the PCRE API in the pcreapi page.