The HTML documentation for PCRE consists of a number of pages that are listed below in alphabetical order. If you are new to PCRE, please read the first one first.
| pcre | Introductory page |
| pcre-config | Information about the installation configuration |
| pcre16 | Discussion of the 16-bit PCRE library |
| pcre32 | Discussion of the 32-bit PCRE library |
| pcreapi | PCRE's native API |
| pcrebuild | Building PCRE |
| pcrecallout | The callout facility |
| pcrecompat | Compability with Perl |
| pcrecpp | The C++ wrapper for the PCRE library |
| pcredemo | A demonstration C program that uses the PCRE library |
| pcregrep | The pcregrep command |
| pcrejit | Discussion of the just-in-time optimization support |
| pcrelimits | Details of size and other limits |
| pcrematching | Discussion of the two matching algorithms |
| pcrepartial | Using PCRE for partial matching |
| pcrepattern | Specification of the regular expressions supported by PCRE |
| pcreperform | Some comments on performance |
| pcreposix | The POSIX API to the PCRE 8-bit library |
| pcreprecompile | How to save and re-use compiled patterns |
| pcresample | Discussion of the pcredemo program |
| pcrestack | Discussion of PCRE's stack usage |
| pcresyntax | Syntax quick-reference summary |
| pcretest | The pcretest command for testing PCRE |
| pcreunicode | Discussion of Unicode and UTF-8/UTF-16/UTF-32 support |
There are also individual pages that summarize the interface for each function in the library. There is a single page for each triple of 8-bit/16-bit/32-bit functions.
| pcre_assign_jit_stack | Assign stack for JIT matching |
| pcre_compile | Compile a regular e |