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pcre_refcount (3)

Name

pcre_refcount - 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

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 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_REFCOUNT(3)