MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

regerror(3) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities regerror(3)

Message: success

Code: REG_OK

Cause: A match was found for the speciﬁed regular expression.

Action: No action is required.

Message: syntax error

Code: REG_BADPAT

Cause: You speciﬁed an invalid regular expression.

Action: Correct the syntax of the regular expression

Message: trailing \ in pattern

Code: REG_EESCAPE

Cause: You speciﬁed a regular expression with a trailing \.

Action: Remove the trailing \ or complete the escape sequence.

Message: unknown regex error

Cause: The error code that was passed to regerror() is not a known error.

Action: Check your program to verify that errcode was retrieved from regexec() or

regcomp().