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NAME
       PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcre.h>

       int pcre_refcount(pcre *code, int adjust);

       int pcre16_refcount(pcre16 *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.

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