Re: [Boost-users] [regex] Context-sensitive replacement oftextusingregex_replace

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [regex] Context-sensitive replacement oftextusingregex_replace
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-25 14:33:36

John Maddock wrote:
> Eric Niebler wrote:
>> You can read about it here: http://tinyurl.com/bd6c3f. I like this
>> interface because it gives the formatter object lots of context and
>> makes formatting potentially very efficient.
>>
>> It would be great if Boost.Regex and Boost.Xpressive settled on a common
>> callback interface for regex_replace().
> 
> I think the interface you have there is very good - I'd always assumed 
> that the callback would accept a match_results not a string - as you say 
> the performance would be just so much better...

Great! But if you adopt this interface, folks will have 1 less reason to 
use xpressive. So I get to keep formatter expressions. ;-)

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Eric Niebler
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