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Table of Contents

Configuration

Compiler Setup

Use in Standalone Mode (without the rest of Boost)

Locale and traits class selection

Algorithm Tuning

Building and Installing the Library

Module Support (Experimental)

Introduction and Overview

Unicode and Boost.Regex

Understanding Marked Sub-Expressions and Captures

Partial Matches

Regular Expression Syntax

Perl Regular Expression Syntax

POSIX Extended Regular Expression Syntax

POSIX Basic Regular Expression Syntax

Character Class Names

Character Classes that are Always Supported

Character classes that are supported by Unicode Regular Expressions

Collating Names

Digraphs

POSIX Symbolic Names

Named Unicode Characters

The Leftmost Longest Rule

Search and Replace Format String Syntax

Sed Format String Syntax

Perl Format String Syntax

Boost-Extended Format String Syntax

Reference

basic_regex

match_results

sub_match

regex_match

regex_search

regex_replace

regex_iterator

regex_token_iterator

bad_expression

syntax_option_type

syntax_option_type Synopsis

Overview of syntax_option_type

Options for Perl Regular Expressions

Options for POSIX Extended Regular Expressions

Options for POSIX Basic Regular Expressions

Options for Literal Strings

match_flag_type

error_type

regex_traits

Interfacing With Non-Standard String Types

Working With Unicode and ICU String Types

Introduction to using Regex with ICU

Unicode regular expression types

Unicode Regular Expression Algorithms

Unicode Aware Regex Iterators

Using Boost Regex With MFC Strings

Introduction to Boost.Regex and MFC Strings

Regex Types Used With MFC Strings

Regular Expression Creation From an MFC String

Overloaded Algorithms For MFC String Types

Iterating Over the Matches Within An MFC String

POSIX Compatible C API's

Concepts

charT Requirements

Traits Class Requirements

Iterator Requirements

Deprecated Interfaces

regex_format (Deprecated)

regex_grep (Deprecated)

regex_split (deprecated)

Internal Details

Unicode Iterators

Background Information

Headers

Localization

Thread Safety

Test and Example Programs

References and Further Information

FAQ

Performance

Testing leftmost-longest searches (platform = Windows x64, compiler = Microsoft Visual C++ version 14.3)

Testing simple leftmost-longest matches (platform = Windows x64, compiler = GNU C++ version 11.4.0)

Testing Perl searches (platform = Windows x64, compiler = Microsoft Visual C++ version 14.3)

Testing simple Perl matches (platform = Windows x64, compiler = Microsoft Visual C++ version 14.3)

Testing Perl searches (platform = Windows x64, compiler = GNU C++ version 11.4.0)

Testing simple leftmost-longest matches (platform = Windows x64, compiler = Microsoft Visual C++ version 14.3)

Testing leftmost-longest searches (platform = Windows x64, compiler = GNU C++ version 11.4.0)

Testing simple Perl matches (platform = Windows x64, compiler = GNU C++ version 11.4.0)

Standards Conformance

Acknowledgements

History