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Character Classes that are Always Supported</a>
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The following character class names are always supported by Boost.Regex:
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POSIX-standard name
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alnum
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Yes
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Any alpha-numeric character.
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alpha
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Yes
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Any alphabetic character.
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blank
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Yes
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Any whitespace character that is not a line separator.
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cntrl
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Yes
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Any control character.
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d
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No
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Any decimal digit
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digit
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Yes
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Any decimal digit.
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graph
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Yes
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Any graphical character.
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l
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No
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Any lower case character.
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lower
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Yes
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Any lower case character.
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print
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Yes
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Any printable character.
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punct
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Yes
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Any punctuation character.
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s
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No
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Any whitespace character.
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space
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Yes
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Any whitespace character.
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unicode
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No
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Any extended character whose code point is above 255 in value.
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u
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No
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Any upper case character.
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upper
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Yes
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Any upper case character.
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w
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No
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Any word character (alphanumeric characters plus the underscore).
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word
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No
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Any word character (alphanumeric characters plus the underscore).
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xdigit
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Yes
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Any hexadecimal digit character.
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