Thanks for your reply. This will solve my problem. On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Philip Hazel <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Sandhya Sriraj wrote: > > > Hi, > > I want to display first 1000 characters of a string (literals are > replaced > > by special symbol). I am using pcre library to replace the literal. After > > replacing every literal I am checking for the length of the string and if > > it is > 1000 then stop matching and display the string. > > > > My problem is, Suppose I am sending a string with length 1GB, and if > there > > is no literal in that string, pcre will check for the entire string. I > want > > to check the match for first 1000 charaters. Is there any way to do this? > > The matching function pcre_exec() takes the string as a pointer and a > length. Just set the length to 1000 if you want to search only the first > 1000 characters. > > Philip > > -- > Philip Hazel > -- Regards, Sandhya Sriraj -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
