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    This document provides an example of using regular expressions (regex) in C code. It demonstrates how to compile a regex using regcomp(), execute a regex match using regexec(), free the compiled regex using regfree(), and retrieve error information about a failed match using regerror(). The example code compiles the regex "^a[[:alnum:]]", executes it on the string "abc", and indicates whether there was a match or not.

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    This document provides an example of using regular expressions (regex) in C code. It demonstrates how to compile a regex using regcomp(), execute a regex match using regexec(), free the compiled regex using regfree(), and retrieve error information about a failed match using regerror(). The example code compiles the regex "^a[[:alnum:]]", executes it on the string "abc", and indicates whether there was a match or not.

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    This document provides an example of using regular expressions (regex) in C code. It demonstrates how to compile a regex using regcomp(), execute a regex match using regexec(), free the compiled regex using regfree(), and retrieve error information about a failed match using regerror(). The example code compiles the regex "^a[[:alnum:]]", executes it on the string "abc", and indicates whether there was a match or not.

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    4/11/2019 Example of POSIX regex in C

    Example of POSIX regex in C

    I just wanted to show an example of using regular expressions in C.

    #include <sys/types.h>
    #include <regex.h>

    int regcomp(regex_t *preg, const char *regex, int cflags);


    Prepare your regex for fast processing
    int regexec(const regex_t *preg, const char *string, size_t nmatch, regmatch_t pmatch[], int eflags);
    Do the matching
    void regfree(regex_t *preg);
    Free your compiled regex for a new "compiling"
    size_t regerror(int errcode, const regex_t *preg, char *errbuf, size_t errbuf_size);
    Retrieve some more information on why the regexec() failed

    #include <sys/types.h>
    #include <regex.h>
    #include <stdio.h>

    int main(int argc, char *argv[]){


    regex_t regex;
    int reti;
    char msgbuf[100];

    /* Compile regular expression */


    reti = regcomp(&regex, "^a[[:alnum:]]", 0);
    if( reti ){ fprintf(stderr, "Could not compile regex\n"); exit(1); }

    /* Execute regular expression */


    reti = regexec(&regex, "abc", 0, NULL, 0);
    if( !reti ){
    puts("Match");
    }
    else if( reti == REG_NOMATCH ){
    puts("No match");
    }
    else{
    regerror(reti, &regex, msgbuf, sizeof(msgbuf));
    fprintf(stderr, "Regex match failed: %s\n", msgbuf);
    exit(1);
    }

    /* Free compiled regular expression if you want to use the regex_t again */
    regfree(&regex);

    return 0;
    }

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