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pcre2_set_max_pattern_length(3)

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)

From pcre2 10.49-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.