C & Regular Expressions

[gregoryc]

Hi, so I'm new to this site.


I just posted a post it and already has more than 4 thousand views!


I have a question.


I am not well versed with PCRE2.



In my other thread, the attached file had a gsub() function that takes three arguments.

#define PCRE2_CODE_UNIT_WIDTH 8
#include <pcre2.h>




char* gsub  (const char* str, const char*     reg, const char* rep) {
size_t outlen;
    static const char* error_str = \"DONT KNOW HOW TO ALLOCATE MEM FOR REGEX\";
    char* out = malloc(outlen =strlen(str) *      strlen(rep))  ;
    if (out == NULL) {
        error:
    fputs(error_str,   stderr);
return NULL;
    }


    
    int error;
    PCRE2_SIZE erroffset;
//                                       printf(\"       %l                             \", 
    const PCRE2_SPTR pattern = (PCRE2_SPTR)reg;
    const PCRE2_SPTR subject = (PCRE2_SPTR)str;
    const PCRE2_SPTR replacement = (PCRE2_SPTR)rep;


    pcre2_code *re = pcre2_compile(pattern, PCRE2_ZERO_TERMINATED, 0, &error, &erroffset, 0);
    if (re == 0) return NULL;
//        return 1;


    pcre2_jit_compile(re, PCRE2_JIT_COMPLETE);


    int rc = pcre2_substitute(re, subject, PCRE2_ZERO_TERMINATED, 0, PCRE2_SUBSTITUTE_GLOBAL | PCRE2_SUBSTITUTE_EXTENDED, 0, 0, replacement, PCRE2_ZERO_TERMINATED, out, &outlen);
    if (rc >= 0);
//        printf(%s\\n, output);


    pcre2_code_free(re);
    size_t new_len = strlen(out);
    char* new_out = realloc(out,new_len + 1);
    if (new_out == NULL) goto error;




    return   new_out;
   }

The PCRE2 API is really complicated.



Questions

1. Is there any way to have PCRE automatically account for memory allocation sizes? With a callback, I could do this manually.

2. So is the best solution to always have a callback function?


3. I want to implement something like Ruby's

str.gsub /foo/ do |i|
....
end


Could someone post a code snippet that does this?



4. Would anyone want to contribute to my other project? (https://cboard.cprogramming.com/c-programming/181160-hi-i-have-created-some-work-i-think-will-really-valuable-community.html)



I can re-write it in C.


It's just the current compiler is using gsub() functions in Crystal.


I'm not an expert in PCRE2.


Thank you.

[Salem]

> I just posted a post it and already has more than 4 thousand views!
It says 14 people at the bottom.

Members who have read this thread: 14

Besides, pressing F5 also bumps the count, so don't believe the number of "views" has any significance at all.

The first problem you have is memory leaks whenever you error out of the code.

> 1. Is there any way to have PCRE automatically account for memory allocation sizes?
Well picking a large buffer, and using this seems reasonable.

PCRE2_SUBSTITUTE_OVERFLOW_LENGTH If overflow, compute needed length

Most of the time, you'll only do it once.
Occasionally, you'll have to do a realloc and try again - but only once.