Method

VteRegexsubstitute

since: 0.56

Declaration [src]

char*
vte_regex_substitute (
  VteRegex* regex,
  const char* subject,
  const char* replacement,
  guint32 flags,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

See man:pcre2api(3) and man:pcre2_substitute(3) for more information.

Available since: 0.56

Parameters

subject

Type: const char*

The subject string.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
replacement

Type: const char*

The replacement string.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
flags

Type: guint32

PCRE2 match flags.

error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.
If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.
The argument will left initialized to NULL by the method if there are no errors.
In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: char*

The substituted string, or NULL if an error occurred.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.