List of regular expression subroutines
The following subroutines handle regular expressions:
- regcomp
- Compiles a regular expression for comparison by the regexec subroutine.
- regerror
- Returns the error message, appropriate for the current locale, that corresponds to the error code returned by either the regcomp or regexec subroutine.
- regexec
- Compares a string with a compiled regular expression from a previous call to the regcomp subroutine.
- regfree
- Frees any memory allocated by a previous call to the regcomp subroutine.