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authorIvo De Decker <ivodd@debian.org>2014-12-06 18:58:19 +0000
committerIvo De Decker <ivodd@debian.org>2014-12-06 18:58:19 +0000
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+.TH PCRE_FREE_SUBSTRING 3 "24 June 2012" "PCRE 8.30"
+.SH NAME
+PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.rs
+.sp
+.B #include <pcre.h>
+.PP
+.SM
+.B void pcre_free_substring(const char *\fIstringptr\fP);
+.PP
+.B void pcre16_free_substring(PCRE_SPTR16 \fIstringptr\fP);
+.PP
+.B void pcre32_free_substring(PCRE_SPTR32 \fIstringptr\fP);
+.
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.rs
+.sp
+This is a convenience function for freeing the store obtained by a previous
+call to \fBpcre[16|32]_get_substring()\fP or \fBpcre[16|32]_get_named_substring()\fP.
+Its only argument is a pointer to the string.
+.P
+There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the
+.\" HREF
+\fBpcreapi\fP
+.\"
+page and a description of the POSIX API in the
+.\" HREF
+\fBpcreposix\fP
+.\"
+page.