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NAME

       PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcre.h>

       const char *pcre_version(void);

DESCRIPTION

       This  function returns a character string that gives the version number
       of the PCRE library and the date of its release.

       There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in  the  pcreapi
       page and a description of the POSIX API in the pcreposix page.