cancel Re: [boost] regex: problem using boost::reg_expression<unsigned short>

From: Yakov Lerner (w) (yakov.lerner_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-07 06:41:54

I am canceling my yesterday's question about reg_expression<unsigned
short>. We'll work with wchar_t.

Jacob L.

"Jacob Lerner (w)" wrote:
> 
> Backhround:
>     On Solaris, wchar_t is 4 bytes(int), not 2 bytes as on
>     windows and on Linux. In our app, we want to work with
>     2-byte-wide strings on any platform, so we define
> 
>        typedef basic_string<unsigned char> unicode_string;
> 
>     , which is different from basic_string<wchar_t>,
>     but this works perfectly good with STL. So far, so good.
> 
> Problem:
> 
>     With boost regex, when I'm trying to use this regex
>     compatible with basic_string<unsigned char>:
> 
> typedef boost::reg_expression<unsigned short,
>    regex_traits<unsigned short>, BOOST_DEFAULT_ALLOCATOR(
>    unsigned short)> re_type;
> 
>     ,I get million of compile errors about missing traits etc.
> 
> Question:
> Q: In order to use boost::reg_expression<unsigned short,..> on the
> platform where
> 'wchar_t' is not 'unsigned short', what do I need to do ?
> 
> Jacob L.
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