.TH PCRE_FREE_SUBSTRING 3
.SH NAME
PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <pcre.h>
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.SM
.B void pcre_free_substring(const char *\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_get_substring()\fP or \fBpcre_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.