NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | COLOPHON

PCRE_REFCOUNT(3)          Library Functions Manual          PCRE_REFCOUNT(3)

NAME         top

       PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <pcre.h>
       int pcre_refcount(pcre *code, int adjust);
       int pcre16_refcount(pcre16 *code, int adjust);
       int pcre32_refcount(pcre32 *code, int adjust);

DESCRIPTION         top

       This function is used to maintain a reference count inside a data
       block that contains a compiled pattern. Its arguments are:
         code                      Compiled regular expression
         adjust                    Adjustment to reference value
       The yield of the function is the adjusted reference value, which is
       constrained to lie between 0 and 65535.
       There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the pcreapi
       page and a description of the POSIX API in the pcreposix page.

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions)
       project.  Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨http://www.pcre.org/⟩.  If you have a bug report for this manual
       page, see ⟨http://bugs.exim.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=PCRE⟩.  This
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PCRE 8.30                       24 June 2012                PCRE_REFCOUNT(3)