.TH PCRE2_GET_ERROR_MESSAGE 3 "17 June 2016" "PCRE2 10.22"
.SH NAME
PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <pcre2.h>
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.B int pcre2_get_error_message(int \fIerrorcode\fP, PCRE2_UCHAR *\fIbuffer\fP,
.B "  PCRE2_SIZE \fIbufflen\fP);"
.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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This function provides a textual error message for each PCRE2 error code.
Compilation errors are positive numbers; UTF formatting errors and matching
errors are negative numbers. The arguments are:
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  \fIerrorcode\fP   an error code (positive or negative)
  \fIbuffer\fP      where to put the message
  \fIbufflen\fP     the length of the buffer (code units)
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The function returns the length of the message, excluding the trailing zero, or
the negative error code PCRE2_ERROR_NOMEMORY if the buffer is too small. In
this case, the returned message is truncated (but still with a trailing zero).
If \fIerrorcode\fP does not contain a recognized error code number, the
negative value PCRE2_ERROR_BADDATA is returned.
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There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the
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page and a description of the POSIX API in the
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page.