<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <title>Interfacing With Non-Standard String Types</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="../ref.html" title="Reference"> <link rel="prev" href="regex_traits.html" title="regex_traits"> <link rel="next" href="non_std_strings/icu.html" title="Working With Unicode and ICU String Types"> </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="regex_traits.html"><img src="../../../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../ref.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="non_std_strings/icu.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.ref.non_std_strings"></a><a class="link" href="non_std_strings.html" title="Interfacing With Non-Standard String Types"> Interfacing With Non-Standard String Types</a> </h3></div></div></div> <div class="toc"><dl> <dt><span class="section"><a href="non_std_strings/icu.html"> Working With Unicode and ICU String Types</a></span></dt> <dd><dl> <dt><span class="section"><a href="non_std_strings/icu/intro.html"> Introduction to using Regex with ICU</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="non_std_strings/icu/unicode_types.html"> Unicode regular expression types</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="non_std_strings/icu/unicode_algo.html"> Unicode Regular Expression Algorithms</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="non_std_strings/icu/unicode_iter.html"> Unicode Aware Regex Iterators</a></span></dt> </dl></dd> <dt><span class="section"><a href="non_std_strings/mfc_strings.html"> Using Boost Regex With MFC Strings</a></span></dt> <dd><dl> <dt><span class="section"><a href="non_std_strings/mfc_strings/mfc_intro.html"> Introduction to Boost.Regex and MFC Strings</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="non_std_strings/mfc_strings/mfc_regex_types.html"> Regex Types Used With MFC Strings</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="non_std_strings/mfc_strings/mfc_regex_create.html"> Regular Expression Creation From an MFC String</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="non_std_strings/mfc_strings/mfc_algo.html"> Overloaded Algorithms For MFC String Types</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="non_std_strings/mfc_strings/mfc_iter.html"> Iterating Over the Matches Within An MFC String</a></span></dt> </dl></dd> </dl></div> <p> The Boost.Regex algorithms and iterators are all iterator-based, with convenience overloads of the algorithms provided that convert standard library string types to iterator pairs internally. If you want to search a non-standard string type then the trick is to convert that string into an iterator pair: so far I haven't come across any string types that can't be handled this way, even if they're not officially iterator based. Certainly any string type that provides access to it's internal buffer, along with it's length, can be converted into a pair of pointers (which can be used as iterators). </p> <p> Some non-standard string types are sufficiently common that wappers have been provided for them already: currently this includes the ICU and MFC string class types. </p> </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. 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