pcre2_substring_free(3)

pcre2_substring_free3

Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised api)

Usage

#include <pcre2.h>

void pcre2_substring_free(PCRE2_UCHAR *buffer);

Overview

This is a convenience function for freeing the memory obtained by a previous call to pcre2_substring_get_byname() or pcre2_substring_get_bynumber(). Its only argument is a pointer to the string. If the argument is NULL, the function does nothing.

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.