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

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-03 06:28:20

llwaeva_at_[hidden] wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> Here's your fundamental problem: regex does not do in-place search
>> and replace.
> It is boost::algorithm::replace_all_regex, not boost:regex_replace

It doesn't change the argument though.  In place search and replace to a 
fixed size buffer is simply asking for trouble.

John.