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pcre2_general_context_free(3)

pcre2_general_context_free3

Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised api)

Usage

void pcre2_general_context_free(pcre2_general_context *gcontext);

Overview

This function frees the memory occupied by a general context, using the memory freeing function within the context, if set. If the argument is NULL, the function returns immediately without doing anything.

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.

History

  • Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
  • Debian 13 (Trixie)
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm) to Debian 10 (Buster)
  • Debian 9 (Stretch)

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