<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>ICU 3.8: regex.h File Reference</title> <link href="doxygen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <link href="tabs.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head><body> <!-- Generated by Doxygen 1.5.1 --> <div class="tabs"> <ul> <li><a href="index.html"><span>Main Page</span></a></li> <li><a href="modules.html"><span>Modules</span></a></li> <li><a href="classes.html"><span>Data Structures</span></a></li> <li id="current"><a href="files.html"><span>Files</span></a></li> <li><a href="pages.html"><span>Related Pages</span></a></li> <li> <form action="search.php" method="get"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr> <td><label> <u>S</u>earch for </label></td> <td><input type="text" name="query" value="" size="20" accesskey="s"/></td> </tr> </table> </form> </li> </ul></div> <div class="tabs"> <ul> <li><a href="files.html"><span>File List</span></a></li> <li><a href="globals.html"><span>Globals</span></a></li> </ul></div> <h1>regex.h File Reference</h1>C++ API: Regular Expressions. <a href="#_details">More...</a> <p> <code>#include "<a class="el" href="utypes_8h-source.html">unicode/utypes.h</a>"</code><br> <code>#include "<a class="el" href="uobject_8h-source.html">unicode/uobject.h</a>"</code><br> <code>#include "<a class="el" href="unistr_8h-source.html">unicode/unistr.h</a>"</code><br> <code>#include "<a class="el" href="parseerr_8h-source.html">unicode/parseerr.h</a>"</code><br> <code>#include "<a class="el" href="uregex_8h-source.html">unicode/uregex.h</a>"</code><br> <p> <a href="regex_8h-source.html">Go to the source code of this file.</a><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr><td></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"><br><h2>Data Structures</h2></td></tr> <tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top">class </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="classRegexPattern.html">RegexPattern</a></td></tr> <tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Class <code><a class="el" href="classRegexPattern.html">RegexPattern</a></code> represents a compiled regular expression. <a href="classRegexPattern.html#_details">More...</a><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top">class </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="classRegexMatcher.html">RegexMatcher</a></td></tr> <tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">class <a class="el" href="classRegexMatcher.html">RegexMatcher</a> bundles together a reular expression pattern and input text to which the expression can be applied. <a href="classRegexMatcher.html#_details">More...</a><br></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"><br><h2>Defines</h2></td></tr> <tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top">#define </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="regex_8h.html#db99cedafe6d353311aac44514f846be">RegexPatternDump</a>(pat)</td></tr> <tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">RBBIPatternDump Debug function, displays the compiled form of a pattern. <a href="#db99cedafe6d353311aac44514f846be"></a><br></td></tr> </table> <hr><a name="_details"></a><h2>Detailed Description</h2> C++ API: Regular Expressions. <p> <h2>Regular Expression API</h2> <p> The ICU API for processing regular expressions consists of two classes, <code><a class="el" href="classRegexPattern.html">RegexPattern</a></code> and <code><a class="el" href="classRegexMatcher.html">RegexMatcher</a></code>. <code><a class="el" href="classRegexPattern.html">RegexPattern</a></code> objects represent a pre-processed, or compiled regular expression. They are created from a regular expression pattern string, and can be used to create <code><a class="el" href="classRegexMatcher.html">RegexMatcher</a></code> objects for the pattern.<p> Class <code><a class="el" href="classRegexMatcher.html">RegexMatcher</a></code> bundles together a regular expression pattern and a target string to which the search pattern will be applied. <code><a class="el" href="classRegexMatcher.html">RegexMatcher</a></code> includes API for doing plain find or search operations, for search and replace operations, and for obtaining detailed information about bounds of a match. <p> Note that by constructing <code><a class="el" href="classRegexMatcher.html">RegexMatcher</a></code> objects directly from regular expression pattern strings application code can be simplified and the explicit need for <code><a class="el" href="classRegexPattern.html">RegexPattern</a></code> objects can usually be eliminated. <p> Definition in file <a class="el" href="regex_8h-source.html">regex.h</a>.<hr><h2>Define Documentation</h2> <a class="anchor" name="db99cedafe6d353311aac44514f846be"></a><!-- doxytag: member="regex.h::RegexPatternDump" ref="db99cedafe6d353311aac44514f846be" args="(pat)" --> <div class="memitem"> <div class="memproto"> <table class="memname"> <tr> <td class="memname">#define RegexPatternDump </td> <td>(</td> <td class="paramtype">pat </td> <td class="paramname"> </td> <td> ) </td> <td width="100%"></td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="memdoc"> <p> RBBIPatternDump Debug function, displays the compiled form of a pattern. <p> <dl compact><dt><b><a class="el" href="internal.html#_internal000178">Internal:</a></b></dt><dd>Do not use. 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