.TH PCRE 3
.SH NAME
PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <pcre.h>
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.B char *pcre_version(void);

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

There is a complete description of the PCRE API in the
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