regfree()

Release memory allocated for a regular expression

Synopsis:

#include <regex.h>

void regfree( regex_t * preg );

preg: A pointer to the regex_t object for the regular expression that you want to free; see regcomp().

libc

Use the -l c option to qcc to link against this library. This library is usually included automatically.

Note: This function is in libc.a, but not in libc.so (in order to save space).

The regfree() function releases all memory allocated by regcomp() associated with preg.

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