.TH PCRE_FREE_SUBSTRING 3

.SH NAME

PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

.SH SYNOPSIS

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.B #include <pcre.h>

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.SM

.B void pcre_free_substring(const char *\fIstringptr\fP);

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.SH DESCRIPTION

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This is a convenience function for freeing the store obtained by a previous

call to \fBpcre_get_substring()\fP or \fBpcre_get_named_substring()\fP. Its

only argument is a pointer to the string.

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There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the

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\fBpcreapi\fP

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page and a description of the POSIX API in the

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\fBpcreposix\fP

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page.