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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  con-
     strained 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.

PCRE 8.30			  24 June 2012			PCRE_REFCOUNT(3)

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