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* [PATCH] regex.3: Add example program
@ 2020-10-17 13:13 Alejandro Colomar
  2020-10-17 13:17 ` Alejandro Colomar
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From: Alejandro Colomar @ 2020-10-17 13:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mtk.manpages; +Cc: Alejandro Colomar, linux-man, libc-alpha

$ gcc -Wall -Wextra -Werror -pedantic regex.c -o regex
$ ./regex
String = "1) John Driverhacker;
2) John Doe;
3) John Foo;
"
#0 match:
rm_so = 25; rm_eo = 32; len = 7
substring = "John Do"
#1 match:
rm_so = 6; rm_eo = 14; len = 8
substring = "John Foo"

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
---

Hello Michael,

Here's the example for regex.3 :-}

Best regards,

Alex


 man3/regex.3 | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man3/regex.3 b/man3/regex.3
index 7c5132995..94da88b7e 100644
--- a/man3/regex.3
+++ b/man3/regex.3
@@ -337,6 +337,50 @@ T}	Thread safety	MT-Safe
 .TE
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
+.SH EXAMPLES
+.EX
+#include <stddef.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <regex.h>
+
+#define ARRAY_SIZE(arr) (sizeof((arr)) / sizeof((arr)[0]))
+
+static const char *const str =
+        "1) John Driverhacker;\en2) John Doe;\en3) John Foo;\en";
+static const char *const re = "John.*o";
+
+int main(void)
+{
+    static const char *s = str;
+    regex_t     regex;
+    regmatch_t  pmatch[1];
+    regoff_t    len;
+
+    if (regcomp(&regex, re, REG_NEWLINE))
+        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+
+    printf("String = \\"%s\\"\en", str);
+
+    for (ptrdiff_t i = 0; ; i++) {
+        if (regexec(&regex, s, ARRAY_SIZE(pmatch), pmatch, 0))
+            break;
+
+        len = pmatch[0].rm_eo \- pmatch[0].rm_so;
+        printf("#%td match:\en", i);
+        printf("rm_so = %jd; rm_eo = %jd; len = %jd\en",
+                (intmax_t) pmatch[0].rm_so,
+                (intmax_t) pmatch[0].rm_eo,
+                (intmax_t) len);
+        printf("substring = \\"%.*s\\"\en", len, s + pmatch[0].rm_so);
+
+        s += pmatch[0].rm_eo;
+    }
+
+    exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+}
+.EE
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR grep (1),
 .BR regex (7)
-- 
2.28.0


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