Re: [Boost-users] [regex] Boost.Regex + ICU vs. standalone ICU

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [regex] Boost.Regex + ICU vs. standalone ICU
From: AJG (plus.ajg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-25 13:55:51

John Maddock <boost.regex <at> virgin.net> writes:

> To a large extend all regex engines are created remarkably equal.
> 
> Looks like ICU hasn't caught up with some of Perl-5.10's additions yet 
> (recursive expressions for example).
> 
> The other advantage of Boost.Regex is that being iterator based you can 
> search text in non-contiguous storage.
> 
> Those were the only two that jumped out at me from a quick look at ICU.
> 
> HTH, John. 

Thanks, it does :). Indeed, it doesn't sound like there's a ton of difference.

I actually didn't know that Boost.Regex supported recursive regexen. Would you 
mind pointing me to the documentation for it, and/or what the syntax looks like?

Thanks again.