.TH PCRE2_MATCH_DATA_FREE 3 "24 October 2014" "PCRE2 10.00" .SH NAME PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API) .SH SYNOPSIS .rs .sp .B #include <pcre2.h> .PP .nf .B void pcre2_match_data_free(pcre2_match_data *\fImatch_data\fP); .fi . .SH DESCRIPTION .rs .sp This function frees the memory occupied by a match data block, using the memory freeing function from the general context with which it was created, or \fBfree()\fP if that was not set. .P There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the .\" HREF \fBpcre2api\fP .\" page and a description of the POSIX API in the .\" HREF \fBpcre2posix\fP .\" page.