PCRE_REFCOUNT(3)                                              PCRE_REFCOUNT(3)



NAME
       PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcre.h>

       int pcre_refcount(pcre *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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