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This page is part of the PCRE HTML documentation. It was generated automatically from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, please consult the man page, in case the conversion went wrong. 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);
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
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.