Checking the most excellent searchable mailindex showed

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/1996/10/29/0003.html

so I am now happy!

Cheers,

Patrick

Patrick Welche wrote:
> 
> Have any of you had any joy with regex(3)? I was under the impression that
> a call to regexec would set nmatch to the number of elements in the array
> regmatch_t pmatch[], though it apparently must be set before the call (and
> therefore pmatch[nmatch] memory must be allocated beforehand.) Right so far?
> 
> Then the i parts that match should be the array of strings starting at
> string+pmatch[i].rm_so and ending at string+pmatch[i].rm_eo
> I am getting garbage, so I'd like confirmation that I'm reading the manpage
> correctly!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Patrick
>