Re: [Boost-users] replace_all_regex on c-string help

From: llwaeva_at_[hidden]
Date: 2006-08-02 04:57:48

>> But for some reason, I need to perform replacement on a
>> C-string (char *), is replace_all_regex safe to do so? Will replace_all_regex handle memory
>> issue for us?

>Of course this would be impossible.  Boost.Regex can't know how the
>memory was allocated (e.g. malloc or new or some custom allocator), or
>even if it *was* allocated.

>Why do you need to operate on raw char*'s?  Why can't you operate on
>an std::string?

I got the string (char*s), which is too big (>10M), from an external
library, it's too slow to convert the raw string to std::string before
it is handled by replace_all_regex