No - you need boost::regex
pm100
2010-03-18 16:42:39
What about Boost.Xpressive?(I have no idea what is it,but googling pop it up).
Arman
2010-03-18 16:59:27
@Arman: I would go with Boost.Regex, since the C++0x draft regex is based on it
stephan
2010-03-18 17:09:30
@Stephan: Is that means that in the nearfuture I will be able to change boost::regex to std::tr1::regex or something like that?
Arman
2010-03-18 17:16:19
@Arman: str::tr1::regex is alread part of gcc and MSVC 2008 as a feature pack. In the future, it will be just `include <regex>` if IIRC.
stephan
2010-03-18 17:39:02
@Stephan: Unfortunately feature pack does not support MSVC2008 Express.
Arman
2010-03-18 17:42:44
@Arman: uh, didn't know about that "feature" :-(. Then use Boost and wait (MSVC 2010 moves TR1 into the std namespace).
stephan
2010-03-18 17:51:09
@Stephan: Well MS keeps nice things inside the commercial products.BTW, I just discovered that MSVC2010 Betta Express includes PPL and TR1 headers.
Arman
2010-03-18 18:18:03
A:
Regular expressions were made for this sort of thing. I can understand your reluctance to avoid a dependency, but in this case it's probably justified.
You might check your C++ compiler to see if it includes any built-in regular expression library. For example, Microsoft includes CAtlRegExp.
Barring that, your problem doesn't look too difficult to write custom code for.
Mark Ransom
2010-03-18 16:58:50
@Mark:Thank you for answer. Actually the code is platform independent. currently it is using several strcmps but that way is nonextensible.
Arman
2010-03-18 17:07:05
A:
You can do it without introducing a new library dependency, but to do so you'd end up writing a regular expression engine yourself (or at least a subset of one).
Is there some reason you don't want to use a library for this?
Joe Gauterin
2010-03-18 17:02:55
@Joe: Yes, you are right, seems to me I need to include Boost.Regex here. The code is pure C++/STL, and it is portable. Sometimes on different machines there is no BOOST installed.
Arman
2010-03-18 17:12:06
If you need compilability on machines without boost, you could extract the boost regex headers and source and integrate them directly into your project. I think I remember seeing discussion of doing that on the boost users mailing list at some point.
Joe Gauterin
2010-03-18 17:18:02