PCRE_REFCOUNT(3)

🎀 NAME 🎀

PCRE — Perl-compatible regular expressions 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <pcre.h>

int pcre_refcount(pcre *code, int adjust);

int pcre16_refcount(pcre16 *code, int adjust);

int pcre32_refcount(pcre32 *code, int adjust);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so bestie, this is the PCRE_REFCOUNT(3) page from the Library Functions Manual, and it's giving “tiny but important” energy fr fr. 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. no cap, that's the whole range, bestie 🫶

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. go read those if you want the full lore 👑

PCRE 8.30 · 24 June 2012 · PCRE_REFCOUNT(3) 💖 mwah, that's the source/version + date sign-off, periodt ✨