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NAME
PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
SYNOPSIS
#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
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.
PCRE 8.30 24 June 2012 PCRE_REFCOUNT(3)