NAME¶

PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

SYNOPSIS¶

#include <pcre.h> void pcre_free_substring(const char *stringptr); void pcre16_free_substring(PCRE_SPTR16 stringptr); void pcre32_free_substring(PCRE_SPTR32 stringptr);

DESCRIPTION¶

This is a convenience function for freeing the store obtained by a previous call to pcre[16|32]_get_substring() or pcre[16|32]_get_named_substring(). Its only argument is a pointer to the string. 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.