This function reads a command history from a file.

Reads a file and writes it to the output buffer.

Reads len bytes from the content into the given buffer.

Reads a file, decompresses it and writes it to standard output.

This reads and verifies the map file, storing the field count and info.

The internal position of the stream is advanced by the number of bytes that were read, so that subsequent reads will continue reading from that point.

Reads nbytes of the slob object. bid is a existing slob id and nbytes is the number of bytes read. Return FALSE on error otherwise the string.

This example opens a ZIP file archive, reads each file in the archive and prints out its contents. The test2.zip archive used in this example is one of the test archives in the ZZIPlib source distribution.

The handling of a backslash followed by a digit other than 0 is complicated. Outside a character class, PCRE reads it and any following digits as a decimal number. If the number is less than 10, or if there have been at least that many previous capturing left parentheses in the expression, the entire sequence is taken as a back reference. A description of how this works is given later, following the discussion of parenthesized subpatterns.