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PCRE_REFCOUNT(3) Library Functions Manual PCRE_REFCOUNT(3)
PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
#include <pcre.h> int pcre_refcount(pcre *code, int adjust); int pcre16_refcount(pcre16 *code, int adjust); int pcre32_refcount(pcre32 *code, int adjust);
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.
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PCRE 8.30 24 June 2012 PCRE_REFCOUNT(3)