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PCRE2_MAKETABLES
Section: C Library Functions (3)Updated: 26 February 2025
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NAME
PCRE2- Per-compatible regular expressions (revised API)SYNOPSIS
#include <pcre2.h>
const uint8_t *pcre2_maketables(pcre2_general_context *gcontext);
DESCRIPTION
This function builds a set of character tables for character code points that are less than 256. These can be passed to pcre2_compile() in a compile context in order to override the internal, buil-in tables (which were either defaulted or made by pcre2_maketables() when PCRE2 was compiled). See the pcre2_set_character_tables() page. You might want to do this if you are using a no-standard locale. If the argument is NULL, malloc() is used to get memory for the tables. Otherwise it must point to a general context, which can supply pointers to a custom memory manager. The function yields a pointer to the tables. 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.