<!-- This comment will put IE 6, 7 and 8 in quirks mode --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml;charset=UTF-8"/> <title>ICU 4.4: regex.h File Reference</title> <link href="tabs.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <link href="search/search.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <script type="text/javaScript" src="search/search.js"></script> <link href="doxygen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> </head> <body onload='searchBox.OnSelectItem(0);'> <!-- Generated by Doxygen 1.6.1 --> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- var searchBox = new SearchBox("searchBox", "search",false,'Search'); --></script> <div class="navigation" id="top"> <div class="tabs"> <ul> <li><a href="index.html"><span>Main Page</span></a></li> <li><a href="pages.html"><span>Related Pages</span></a></li> <li><a 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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="utext_8h_source.html">unicode/utext.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></p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr><td colspan="2"><h2>Data Structures</h2></td></tr> <tr><td class="memItemLeft" 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" title="Class RegexPattern represents a compiled regular expression.">RegexPattern</a></code> represents a compiled regular expression. <a href="classRegexPattern.html#_details">More...</a><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="memItemLeft" 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" title="class RegexMatcher bundles together a reular expression pattern and input text to...">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"><h2>Defines</h2></td></tr> <tr><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">#define </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="regex_8h.html#adb99cedafe6d353311aac44514f846be">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="#adb99cedafe6d353311aac44514f846be"></a><br/></td></tr> </table> <hr/><a name="_details"></a><h2>Detailed Description</h2> <p>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" title="Class RegexPattern represents a compiled regular expression.">RegexPattern</a></code> and <code><a class="el" href="classRegexMatcher.html" title="class RegexMatcher bundles together a reular expression pattern and input text to...">RegexMatcher</a></code>. <code><a class="el" href="classRegexPattern.html" title="Class RegexPattern represents a compiled regular expression.">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" title="class RegexMatcher bundles together a reular expression pattern and input text to...">RegexMatcher</a></code> objects for the pattern.</p> <p>Class <code><a class="el" href="classRegexMatcher.html" title="class RegexMatcher bundles together a reular expression pattern and input text to...">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" title="class RegexMatcher bundles together a reular expression pattern and input text to...">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> <p>Note that by constructing <code><a class="el" href="classRegexMatcher.html" title="class RegexMatcher bundles together a reular expression pattern and input text to...">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" title="Class RegexPattern represents a compiled regular expression.">RegexPattern</a></code> objects can usually be eliminated. </p> <p>Definition in file <a class="el" href="regex_8h_source.html">regex.h</a>.</p> <hr/><h2>Define Documentation</h2> <a class="anchor" id="adb99cedafe6d353311aac44514f846be"></a><!-- doxytag: member="regex.h::RegexPatternDump" ref="adb99cedafe6d353311aac44514f846be" 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></td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="memdoc"> <p>RBBIPatternDump Debug function, displays the compiled form of a pattern. </p> <dl class="internal"><dt><b><a class="el" href="internal.html#_internal000328">Internal:</a></b></dt><dd>Do not use. 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