<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <title>Regular Expression 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="../index.html" title="Boost.Regex"> <link rel="prev" href="partial_matches.html" title="Partial Matches"> <link rel="next" href="syntax/perl_syntax.html" title="Perl Regular Expression 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="partial_matches.html"><img src="../../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../index.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="syntax/perl_syntax.html"><img src="../../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> <div class="section" lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> <a name="boost_regex.syntax"></a><a class="link" href="syntax.html" title="Regular Expression Syntax"> Regular Expression Syntax</a> </h2></div></div></div> <div class="toc"><dl> <dt><span class="section"><a href="syntax/perl_syntax.html"> Perl Regular Expression Syntax</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="syntax/basic_extended.html"> POSIX Extended Regular Expression Syntax</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="syntax/basic_syntax.html"> POSIX Basic Regular Expression Syntax</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="syntax/character_classes.html"> Character Class Names</a></span></dt> <dd><dl> <dt><span class="section"><a href="syntax/character_classes/std_char_clases.html"> Character Classes that are Always Supported</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="syntax/character_classes/optional_char_class_names.html"> Character classes that are supported by Unicode Regular Expressions</a></span></dt> </dl></dd> <dt><span class="section"><a href="syntax/collating_names.html"> Collating Names</a></span></dt> <dd><dl> <dt><span class="section"><a href="syntax/collating_names/digraphs.html"> Digraphs</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="syntax/collating_names/posix_symbolic_names.html"> POSIX Symbolic Names</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="syntax/collating_names/named_unicode.html"> Named Unicode Characters</a></span></dt> </dl></dd> <dt><span class="section"><a href="syntax/leftmost_longest_rule.html"> The Leftmost Longest Rule</a></span></dt> </dl></div> <p> This section covers the regular expression syntax used by this library, this is a programmers guide, the actual syntax presented to your program's users will depend upon the flags used during expression compilation. </p> <p> There are three main syntax options available, depending upon how you construct the regular expression object: </p> <div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"> <li> <a class="link" href="syntax/perl_syntax.html" title="Perl Regular Expression Syntax">Perl (this is the default behavior)</a>. </li> <li> <a class="link" href="syntax/basic_extended.html" title="POSIX Extended Regular Expression Syntax">POSIX extended (including the egrep and awk variations)</a>. </li> <li> <a class="link" href="syntax/basic_syntax.html" title="POSIX Basic Regular Expression Syntax">POSIX Basic (including the grep and emacs variations)</a>. </li> </ul></div> <p> You can also construct a regular expression that treats every character as a literal, but that's not really a "syntax"! </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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