pcre2_set_max_pattern_length3
Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised api)
Usage
int pcre2_set_max_pattern_length(pcre2_compile_context
*ccontext,
PCRE2_SIZE value);
Overview
This function sets, in a compile context, the maximum text length (in code units) of the pattern that can be compiled. The result is always zero. If a longer pattern is passed to pcre2_compile() there is an immediate error return. The default is effectively unlimited, being the largest value a PCRE2_SIZE variable can hold.
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.
History
- Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
- Debian 13 (Trixie)
- Debian 12 (Bookworm) to Debian 10 (Buster)