1<html> 2<head> 3<title>pcre_refcount specification</title> 4</head> 5<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#3399FF" vlink="#2222BB"> 6<h1>pcre_refcount man page</h1> 7<p> 8Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>. 9</p> 10<p> 11This page is part of the PCRE HTML documentation. It was generated automatically 12from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, please consult the 13man page, in case the conversion went wrong. 14<br> 15<br><b> 16SYNOPSIS 17</b><br> 18<P> 19<b>#include <pcre.h></b> 20</P> 21<P> 22<b>int pcre_refcount(pcre *<i>code</i>, int <i>adjust</i>);</b> 23</P> 24<P> 25<b>int pcre16_refcount(pcre16 *<i>code</i>, int <i>adjust</i>);</b> 26</P> 27<br><b> 28DESCRIPTION 29</b><br> 30<P> 31This function is used to maintain a reference count inside a data block that 32contains a compiled pattern. Its arguments are: 33<pre> 34 <i>code</i> Compiled regular expression 35 <i>adjust</i> Adjustment to reference value 36</pre> 37The yield of the function is the adjusted reference value, which is constrained 38to lie between 0 and 65535. 39</P> 40<P> 41There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the 42<a href="pcreapi.html"><b>pcreapi</b></a> 43page and a description of the POSIX API in the 44<a href="pcreposix.html"><b>pcreposix</b></a> 45page. 46<p> 47Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>. 48</p> 49