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.TH PCRE_REFCOUNT 3 "24 June 2012" "PCRE 8.30"
.SH NAME
PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <pcre.h>
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.B int pcre_refcount(pcre *\fIcode\fP, int \fIadjust\fP);
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.B int pcre16_refcount(pcre16 *\fIcode\fP, int \fIadjust\fP);
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.B int pcre32_refcount(pcre32 *\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:
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  \fIcode\fP                      Compiled regular expression
  \fIadjust\fP                    Adjustment to reference value
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The yield of the function is the adjusted reference value, which is constrained
to lie between 0 and 65535.
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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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page.


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.SH ATTRIBUTES
See
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for descriptions of the following attributes:
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ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE 
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Availability	library/pcre
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Stability	Uncommitted
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.SH NOTES

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