pcre2_code_free(3)

pcre2_code_free3

Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised api)

Usage

#include <pcre2.h>

void pcre2_code_free(pcre2_code *code);

Overview

If code is NULL, this function does nothing. Otherwise, code must point to a compiled pattern. This function frees its memory, including any memory used by the JIT compiler. If the compiled pattern was created by a call to pcre2_code_copy_with_tables(), the memory for the character tables is also freed.

There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the pcre2api page and a description of the POSIX API in the pcre2posix page.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10–12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

From pcre2 10.49-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.