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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Escaping boost.regex literal string fragments
From: Dominique Devienne (ddevienne_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-10-13 12:38:46

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 6:10 PM, John Maddock <jz.maddock_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> 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?

Sounds like I could indeed. Didn't know about them. Thanks John!

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_58_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/syntax/perl_syntax.html#boost_regex.syntax.perl_syntax.quoting_escape

> Does C++11's std::regex, based on boost::regex, include this API? Thanks,
>> --DD
>>
>> No.
>

I'll try \Q \E using std::regex too.