1 .TH PCRE_REFCOUNT 3

     2 .SH NAME

     3 PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

     4 .SH SYNOPSIS

     5 .rs

     6 .sp

     7 .B #include <pcre.h>

     8 .PP

     9 .SM

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

    11 .

    12 .SH DESCRIPTION

    13 .rs

    14 .sp

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

    16 contains a compiled pattern. Its arguments are:

    17 .sp

    18   \fIcode\fP                      Compiled regular expression

    19   \fIadjust\fP                    Adjustment to reference value

    20 .sp

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

    22 to lie between 0 and 65535.

    23 .P

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

    25 .\" HREF

    26 \fBpcreapi\fP

    27 .\"

    28 page and a description of the POSIX API in the

    29 .\" HREF

    30 \fBpcreposix\fP

    31 .\"

    32 page.