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<br><b> 25DESCRIPTION 26</b><br> 27<P> 28This function is used to maintain a reference count inside a data block that 29contains a compiled pattern. Its arguments are: 30<pre> 31 <i>code</i> Compiled regular expression 32 <i>adjust</i> Adjustment to reference value 33</pre> 34The yield of the function is the adjusted reference value, which is constrained 35to lie between 0 and 65535. 36</P> 37<P> 38There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the 39<a href="pcreapi.html"><b>pcreapi</b></a> 40page and a description of the POSIX API in the 41<a href="pcreposix.html"><b>pcreposix</b></a> 42page. 43<p> 44Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>. 45</p> 46