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.