Re: [Boost-users] Escaping boost.regex literal string fragments

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Escaping boost.regex literal string fragments
From: John Maddock (jz.maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-10-13 12:10:20

On 13/10/2015 14:20, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> Is there no equivalent to http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qregexp.html#escape 
> in Boost.Regex, i.e. a way to escape all special characters so they 
> match "literally"?
>
No, can you use Perl's \Q \E construct for the same effect?
> There are manual solutions, like 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1252992/how-to-escape-a-string-for-use-in-boost-regex, 
> but shouldn't that be part of the API?
>
> Does C++11's std::regex, based on boost::regex, include this API? 
> Thanks, --DD
>
No.

John.