pcre2_substring_free.3

.TH PCRE2_SUBSTRING_FREE 3 "28 June 2018" "PCRE2 10.46-DEV"
.SH NAME
PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <pcre2.h>
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.SM
.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.
.P
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.