regfree() free memory used by regular expression	Function
	SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION PARAMETERS RETURN VALUES CONFORMANCE MULTITHREAD SAFETY LEVEL PORTING ISSUES AVAILABILITY SEE ALSO

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SYNOPSIS

#include <regex.h>

void regfree(regex_t *preg);

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DESCRIPTION

The regfree() function frees any memory allocated by regcomp() associated with preg. If the preg argument to regfree() is not a compiled regular expression returned by regcomp(), the result is undefined. A preg is no longer treated as a compiled regular expression after it is given to regfree().

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PARAMETERS

preg 

A pointer to a compiled regular expression that a previous call to regcomp() initialized.

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RETURN VALUES

None.

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CONFORMANCE

POSIX.2 (1992).

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MULTITHREAD SAFETY LEVEL

MT-Safe.

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PORTING ISSUES

None.

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AVAILABILITY

PTC MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers
PTC MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers 64-Bit Edition
PTC MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers
PTC MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers 64-Bit Edition

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SEE ALSO

Functions:

regcomp(), regerror(), regexec()

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