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pcre_free_substring (3)

Name

pcre_free_substring - compatible regular expressions

Synopsis

#include <pcre.h>

void pcre_free_substring(const char *stringptr);

void pcre16_free_substring(PCRE_SPTR16 stringptr);

void pcre32_free_substring(PCRE_SPTR32 stringptr);

Description

PCRE_FREE_SUBSTRING(3)     Library Functions Manual     PCRE_FREE_SUBSTRING(3)



NAME
       PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcre.h>

       void pcre_free_substring(const char *stringptr);

       void pcre16_free_substring(PCRE_SPTR16 stringptr);

       void pcre32_free_substring(PCRE_SPTR32 stringptr);

DESCRIPTION

       This is a convenience function for freeing the store obtained by a pre-
       vious call to pcre[16|32]_get_substring() or pcre[16|32]_get_named_sub-
       string().  Its only argument is a pointer to the string.

       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.



ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | library/pcre     |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
       +---------------+------------------+

NOTES
       Source code for open source software components in Oracle  Solaris  can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This    software    was    built    from    source     available     at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.    The  original  community
       source        was        downloaded        from         https://source-
       forge.net/projects/pcre/files/pcre/8.45/pcre-8.45.tar.gz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://pcre.org/.



PCRE 8.30                        24 June 2012           PCRE_FREE_SUBSTRING(3)