I'm attempting to build an application which requires multibyte character support, for which I'm using the Glib::ustring, and needs also to use regex.
From what I understand you need to tell boost regex exactly how to iterate over your strings.
I've got as far as:
typedef boost::match_results<Glib::ustring::iterator, std::allocator<gunichar> > umatch;
You could ditch the allocator parameter from that typedef.
typedef boost::reg_expression<Glib::ustring, boost::regex_traits<Glib::ustring> > uregex;
No the first parameter to the regex type is the *character type*, not a *string type*. Since Glib::ustring is a sequence of bytes, you could just use boost::regex here, but then that would not be Unicode and UTF-8 aware. To get full Unicode support in boost::regex you nead to use it in conjunction with the ICU library, see: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_39_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/ref/non... But I also note that Glib has a PCRE based regex engine of it's own, which may well provide you with what you need? HTH, John.