1<html> 2<head> 3<title>pcre2_substring_free specification</title> 4</head> 5<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#3399FF" vlink="#2222BB"> 6<h1>pcre2_substring_free man page</h1> 7<p> 8Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE2 index page</a>. 9</p> 10<p> 11This page is part of the PCRE2 HTML documentation. It was generated 12automatically from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, 13please consult the man page, in case the conversion went wrong. 14<br> 15<br><b> 16SYNOPSIS 17</b><br> 18<P> 19<b>#include <pcre2.h></b> 20</P> 21<P> 22<b>void pcre2_substring_free(PCRE2_UCHAR *<i>buffer</i>);</b> 23</P> 24<br><b> 25DESCRIPTION 26</b><br> 27<P> 28This is a convenience function for freeing the memory obtained by a previous 29call to <b>pcre2_substring_get_byname()</b> or 30<b>pcre2_substring_get_bynumber()</b>. Its only argument is a pointer to the 31string. If the argument is NULL, the function does nothing. 32</P> 33<P> 34There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the 35<a href="pcre2api.html"><b>pcre2api</b></a> 36page and a description of the POSIX API in the 37<a href="pcre2posix.html"><b>pcre2posix</b></a> 38page. 39<p> 40Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE2 index page</a>. 41</p> 42