Introduction to Library Functions                PCREREFCOUNT(3)



NAME
     PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

SYNOPSIS

     #include 

     int pcrerefcount(pcre *code, int adjust);

DESCRIPTION

     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.

ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     
       ATRIBUTE TYPE     ATRIBUTE VALUE
    
     Availability         SUNWpcre       
    
     Interface Stability  Uncommitted    
    

NOTES
     Source for PCRE is available on http:/opensolaris.org.
















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