.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.