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## SYNOPSIS

#include <pcre2.h>

int pcre2_substring_number_from_name(const pcre2_code *code, PCRE2_SPTR name);

## DESCRIPTION

This convenience function finds the number of a named substring capturing parenthesis in a compiled pattern, provided that it is a unique name. The function arguments are:

      code    Compiled regular expression
      name    Name whose number is required

The yield of the function is the number of the parenthesis if the name is found, or PCRE2_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING if it is not found. When duplicate names are allowed (PCRE2_DUPNAMES is set), if the name is not unique, PCRE2_ERROR_NOUNIQUESUBSTRING is returned. You can obtain the list of numbers with the same name by calling pcre2_substring_nametable_scan().

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