.TH PCRE2_SUBSTRING_FREE 3 "28 June 2018" "PCRE2 10.32"

.SH NAME

PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)

.SH SYNOPSIS

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.B #include <pcre2.h>

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.B void pcre2_substring_free(PCRE2_UCHAR *\fIbuffer\fP);

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.SH DESCRIPTION

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

call to \fBpcre2_substring_get_byname()\fP or

\fBpcre2_substring_get_bynumber()\fP. Its only argument is a pointer to the

string. If the argument is NULL, the function does nothing.

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There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the

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page and a description of the POSIX API in the

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page.