.TH PCRE_FREE_SUBSTRING 3 "24 June 2012" "PCRE 8.30"
.SH NAME
PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <pcre.h>
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.B void pcre_free_substring(const char *\fIstringptr\fP);
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.B void pcre16_free_substring(PCRE_SPTR16 \fIstringptr\fP);
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.B void pcre32_free_substring(PCRE_SPTR32 \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[16|32]_get_substring()\fP or \fBpcre[16|32]_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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page and a description of the POSIX API in the
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\fBpcreposix\fP
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page.