pcre_refcount - Man Page

#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

The yield of the function is the adjusted reference value, which is constrained 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.

The man pages pcre16_refcount(3) and pcre32_refcount(3) are aliases of pcre_refcount(3).