boost regex expression

Posted 2021-12-23 sssblog

Boost.Regex provides three different functions to search for regular expressions

1. regex_match

#include <boost/regex.hpp>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>

int main() 
  std::string s = "Boost Libraries";
  boost::regex expr("\\w+\\s\\w+");
  std::cout << std::boolalpha << boost::regex_match(s, expr) << std::endl;
  return 0;

boost::regex_match() compares a string with a regular expression. It will return true only if the expression matches the complete string.

2. regex_search

#include <boost/regex.hpp>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>

int main() 
  std::string s = "Boost Libraries";
  boost::regex expr("(\\w+)\\s(\\w+)");
  boost::smatch what;
  if (boost::regex_search(s, what, expr)) 
    std::cout << what[0] << std::endl;
    std::cout << what[1] << "_" << what[2] << std::endl;
  
  return 0;

3. regex_replace

#include <boost/regex.hpp>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>

int main() 
  std::string s = " Boost Libraries";
  boost::regex expr("\\s");
  std::string fmt("_");
  std::cout << boost::regex_replace(s, expr, fmt) << std::endl;
  return 0;