Awesome thank you so much, I had missed that the last argument should be a
pointer to the length and not the length. The working version is:
function my_replace(s::AbstractString, pat::Regex, rep_in)
offset=0
Base.compile(pat)
subject = bytestring(s)
rep = bytestring(rep_in)
buffer = Array(UInt8, 256*2)
re = pat.regex
length = Ref{Csize_t}(sizeof(buffer))
rc = ccall((:pcre2_substitute_8, Base.PCRE.PCRE_LIB), Cint,
(Ptr{Void}, Ptr{UInt8}, Csize_t, Csize_t, Cuint, Ptr{Void},
Ptr{Void}, Ptr{UInt8}, Csize_t, Ptr{UInt8}, Ref{Csize_t}),
re, subject, sizeof(subject), offset, pat.match_options,
pat.match_data,
Base.PCRE.MATCH_CONTEXT, rep, sizeof(rep), buffer, length)
println(rc)
bytestring(pointer(buffer))
end
my_replace("adsa10as", r"a(\d+)", " \$1 ")
I will probably make a pull to add this functionality to base, if i can get it
wrapped up nicely.
