<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <title>Sed Format String Syntax</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../../../../../doc/src/boostbook.css" type="text/css"> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0"> <link rel="home" href="../../index.html" title="Boost.Regex"> <link rel="up" href="../format.html" title="Search and Replace Format String Syntax"> <link rel="prev" href="../format.html" title="Search and Replace Format String Syntax"> <link rel="next" href="perl_format.html" title="Perl Format String Syntax"> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> <table cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr> <td valign="top"><img alt="Boost C++ Libraries" width="277" height="86" src="../../../../../../boost.png"></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../index.html">Home</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../libs/libraries.htm">Libraries</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/people.html">People</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/faq.html">FAQ</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../more/index.htm">More</a></td> </tr></table> <hr> <div class="spirit-nav"> <a accesskey="p" href="../format.html"><img src="../../../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../format.html"><img src="../../../../../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../../index.html"><img src="../../../../../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="perl_format.html"><img src="../../../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> <div class="section" lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"> <a name="boost_regex.format.sed_format"></a><a class="link" href="sed_format.html" title="Sed Format String Syntax"> Sed Format String Syntax</a> </h3></div></div></div> <p> Sed-style format strings treat all characters as literals except: </p> <div class="informaltable"><table class="table"> <colgroup> <col> <col> </colgroup> <thead><tr> <th> <p> character </p> </th> <th> <p> description </p> </th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p> & </p> </td> <td> <p> The ampersand character is replaced in the output stream by the the whole of what matched the regular expression. Use \& to output a literal '&' character. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> \ </p> </td> <td> <p> Specifies an escape sequence. </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <p> An escape character followed by any character x, outputs that character unless x is one of the escape sequences shown below. </p> <div class="informaltable"><table class="table"> <colgroup> <col> <col> </colgroup> <thead><tr> <th> <p> Escape </p> </th> <th> <p> Meaning </p> </th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p> \a </p> </td> <td> <p> Outputs the bell character: '\a'. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> \e </p> </td> <td> <p> Outputs the ANSI escape character (code point 27). </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> \f </p> </td> <td> <p> Outputs a form feed character: '\f' </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> \n </p> </td> <td> <p> Outputs a newline character: '\n'. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> \r </p> </td> <td> <p> Outputs a carriage return character: '\r'. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> \t </p> </td> <td> <p> Outputs a tab character: '\t'. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> \v </p> </td> <td> <p> Outputs a vertical tab character: '\v'. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> \xDD </p> </td> <td> <p> Outputs the character whose hexadecimal code point is 0xDD </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> \x{DDDD} </p> </td> <td> <p> Outputs the character whose hexadecimal code point is 0xDDDDD </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> \cX </p> </td> <td> <p> Outputs the ANSI escape sequence "escape-X". </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> \D </p> </td> <td> <p> If D is a decimal digit in the range 1-9, then outputs the text that matched sub-expression D. </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> </div> <table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> <td align="left"></td> <td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 1998 -2007 John Maddock<p> Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt" target="_top">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>) </p> </div></td> </tr></table> <hr> <div class="spirit-nav"> <a accesskey="p" href="../format.html"><img src="../../../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../format.html"><img src="../../../../../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../../index.html"><img src="../../../../../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="perl_format.html"><img src="../../../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> </body> </html>