<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <title>Introduction to using Regex with ICU</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="../icu.html" title="Working With Unicode and ICU String Types"> <link rel="prev" href="../icu.html" title="Working With Unicode and ICU String Types"> <link rel="next" href="unicode_types.html" title="Unicode regular expression 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="../icu.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../icu.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="unicode_types.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> <div class="section" lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"> <a name="boost_regex.ref.non_std_strings.icu.intro"></a><a class="link" href="intro.html" title="Introduction to using Regex with ICU"> Introduction to using Regex with ICU</a> </h5></div></div></div> <p> The header: </p> <pre class="programlisting"><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">regex</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">icu</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span><span class="special">></span> </pre> <p> contains the data types and algorithms necessary for working with regular expressions in a Unicode aware environment. </p> <p> In order to use this header you will need the <a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/" target="_top">ICU library</a>, and you will need to have built the Boost.Regex library with <a class="link" href="../../../install.html#boost_regex.install.building_with_unicode_and_icu_support">ICU support enabled</a>. </p> <p> The header will enable you to: </p> <div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"> <li> Create regular expressions that treat Unicode strings as sequences of UTF-32 code points. </li> <li> Create regular expressions that support various Unicode data properties, including character classification. </li> <li> Transparently search Unicode strings that are encoded as either UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32. </li> </ul></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="../icu.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../icu.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="unicode_types.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> </body> </html>