Re: [Boost-users] Boost Regex: Use boost::uint32_t as character type.

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost Regex: Use boost::uint32_t as character type.
From: Etienne Philip Pretorius (icewolfhunter_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-14 05:35:02

John Maddock wrote:
>> I just like to know, if you can use a std::vector<boost::uint32_t> as a
>> source to match regular expressions against it.
> 
> Yes but... not right out of the box, you would need to provide a traits 
> class so that regex_traits<uint32_t> knows how to interpret unint32_t's 
> as characters.
> 
> What precisely did you want to do?
> 

Convert UTF-8/UTF-16 to unint32_t then use Regular Expressions as a 
means to parse xml.

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~cameron/REX.html (bit outdated)

> HTH, John.
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