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pcre2_set_newline(3)

pcre2_set_newline3

Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised api)

Usage

int pcre2_set_newline(pcre2_compile_context *ccontext,

uint32_t value);

Overview

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
PCRE2_NEWLINE_NUL The NUL character (binary zero)

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.

History

  • Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
  • Debian 13 (Trixie)
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm) to Debian 10 (Buster)
  • Debian 9 (Stretch)

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