.TH PCRE_REFCOUNT 3

.SH NAME

PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

.SH SYNOPSIS

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.B #include <pcre.h>

.PP

.SM

.B int pcre_refcount(pcre *\fIcode\fP, int \fIadjust\fP);

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.SH DESCRIPTION

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This function is used to maintain a reference count inside a data block that

contains a compiled pattern. Its arguments are:

.sp

  \fIcode\fP                      Compiled regular expression

  \fIadjust\fP                    Adjustment to reference value

.sp

The yield of the function is the adjusted reference value, which is constrained

to lie between 0 and 65535.

.P

There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the

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page and a description of the POSIX API in the

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\fBpcreposix\fP

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page.