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diff --git a/ccan/str_talloc/str_talloc.h b/ccan/str_talloc/str_talloc.h
index 50cea2dc..c6e6a84b 100644
--- a/ccan/str_talloc/str_talloc.h
+++ b/ccan/str_talloc/str_talloc.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* Licensed under LGPLv2.1+ - see LICENSE file for details */
 #ifndef CCAN_STR_TALLOC_H
 #define CCAN_STR_TALLOC_H
 #include <string.h>
@@ -8,7 +9,6 @@
  * @ctx: the context to tallocate from (often NULL)
  * @string: the string to split
  * @delims: delimiters where lines should be split.
- * @nump: optional pointer to place resulting number of lines
  *
  * This function splits a single string into multiple strings.  The
  * original string is untouched: an array is allocated (using talloc)
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@
  * in empty substrings.  By definition, no delimiters will appear in
  * the substrings.
  *
- * The final char * in the array will be NULL, so you can use this or
- * @nump to find the array length.
+ * The final char * in the array will be NULL, talloc_array_length() of the
+ * returned value is 1 greater than the number of valid elements in
+ * the array.
  *
  * Example:
  *	#include <ccan/talloc/talloc.h>
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@
  *		unsigned int i, long_lines = 0;
  *
  *		// Can only fail on out-of-memory.
- *		lines = strsplit(NULL, string, "\n", NULL);
+ *		lines = strsplit(NULL, string, "\n");
  *		for (i = 0; lines[i] != NULL; i++)
  *			if (strlen(lines[i]) > 80)
  *				long_lines++;
@@ -37,8 +38,7 @@
  *		return long_lines;
  *	}
  */
-char **strsplit(const void *ctx, const char *string, const char *delims,
-		 unsigned int *nump);
+char **strsplit(const void *ctx, const char *string, const char *delims);
 
 /**
  * strjoin - Join an array of substrings into one long string
@@ -56,11 +56,54 @@ char **strsplit(const void *ctx, const char *string, const char *delims,
  *	{
  *		char **lines, *ret;
  *
- *		lines = strsplit(NULL, string, "\n", NULL);
+ *		lines = strsplit(NULL, string, "\n");
  *		ret = strjoin(NULL, lines, "-- EOL\n");
  *		talloc_free(lines);
  *		return ret;
  *	}
  */
 char *strjoin(const void *ctx, char *strings[], const char *delim);
+
+/**
+ * strreg - match and extract from a string via (extended) regular expressions.
+ * @ctx: the context to tallocate from (often NULL)
+ * @string: the string to try to match.
+ * @regex: the regular expression to match.
+ * ...: pointers to strings to allocate for subexpressions.
+ *
+ * Returns true if we matched, in which case any parenthesized
+ * expressions in @regex are allocated and placed in the char **
+ * arguments following @regex.  NULL arguments mean the match is not
+ * saved.  The order of the strings is the order
+ * of opening braces in the expression: in the case of repeated
+ * expressions (eg "([a-z])*") the last one is saved, in the case of
+ * non-existent matches (eg "([a-z]*)?") the pointer is set to NULL.
+ *
+ * Allocation failures or malformed regular expressions return false.
+ *
+ * See Also:
+ *	regcomp(3), regex(3).
+ *
+ * Example:
+ *	// Given 'My name is Rusty' outputs 'Hello Rusty!'
+ *	// Given 'my first name is Rusty Russell' outputs 'Hello Rusty Russell!'
+ *	// Given 'My name isnt Rusty Russell' outputs 'Hello there!'
+ *	int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+ *	{
+ *		char *person, *input;
+ *
+ *		// Join args and trim trailing space.
+ *		input = strjoin(NULL, argv+1, " ");
+ *		if (strlen(input) != 0)
+ *			input[strlen(input)-1] = '\0';
+ *
+ *		if (strreg(NULL, input, "[Mm]y (first )?name is ([A-Za-z ]+)",
+ *			   NULL, &person))
+ *			printf("Hello %s!\n", person);
+ *		else
+ *			printf("Hello there!\n");
+ *		return 0;
+ *	}
+ */
+bool strreg(const void *ctx, const char *string, const char *regex, ...);
 #endif /* CCAN_STR_TALLOC_H */