linux man page for pcre_version

PCRE_VERSION(3) 					     Library Functions Manual						   PCRE_VERSION(3)

NAME
       PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcre.h>

       const char *pcre_version(void);

DESCRIPTION

       This function returns a character string that gives the version number of the PCRE library and the date of its release.

       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.

																   PCRE_VERSION(3)