PCRE_REFCOUNT(3)                     Library Functions 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);

       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 descrip‐
       tion of the POSIX API in the pcreposix page.



PCRE 8.30                                  24 June 2012                          PCRE_REFCOUNT(3)