[boost] Boost and regular expressions

From: John Maddock (John_Maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-09-04 06:23:06

>Came across an excellent reg expr package at
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/John_Maddock/regexpp.htm

Can be used at many levels - from raw API to posix compatible interface to
a
more C++ approach using locales etc.<

I hope you don't mind me jumping in here, but I've been lurking here for a
few days after a "heads up" from Paul.

The boost project is certainly an interesting idea, and I've no doubt that
group partisipation results in stronger code, so I've been wondering about
offering regex++ for integration with boost.  I can forsee many problems
(differing namespaces and header file extensions amoung the easier to
solve) and there is currently some duplication of effort (file/directory
iterators, timer classes), so the question is what do you guys think?  Is
it even remotely workable/desirable, or too much work?

I look forward to your comments :-)

John Maddock.