PCRE_REFCOUNT(3)          OpenBSD Programmer's Manual         PCRE_REFCOUNT(3)



NAME
       PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcre.h>

       int pcre_refcount(pcre *code, int adjust);

       int pcre16_refcount(pcre16 *code, int adjust);

DESCRIPTION

       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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