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  27. <a name="boost_regex.background.standards"></a><a class="link" href="standards.html" title="Standards Conformance">Standards Conformance</a>
  28. </h3></div></div></div>
  29. <h5>
  30. <a name="boost_regex.background.standards.h0"></a>
  31. <span class="phrase"><a name="boost_regex.background.standards.c"></a></span><a class="link" href="standards.html#boost_regex.background.standards.c">C++</a>
  32. </h5>
  33. <p>
  34. Boost.Regex is intended to conform to the <a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1836.pdf" target="_top">Technical
  35. Report on C++ Library Extensions</a>.
  36. </p>
  37. <h5>
  38. <a name="boost_regex.background.standards.h1"></a>
  39. <span class="phrase"><a name="boost_regex.background.standards.ecmascript_javascript"></a></span><a class="link" href="standards.html#boost_regex.background.standards.ecmascript_javascript">ECMAScript
  40. / JavaScript</a>
  41. </h5>
  42. <p>
  43. All of the ECMAScript regular expression syntax features are supported, except
  44. that:
  45. </p>
  46. <p>
  47. The escape sequence \u matches any upper case character (the same as [[:upper:]])
  48. rather than a Unicode escape sequence; use \x{DDDD} for Unicode escape sequences.
  49. </p>
  50. <h5>
  51. <a name="boost_regex.background.standards.h2"></a>
  52. <span class="phrase"><a name="boost_regex.background.standards.perl"></a></span><a class="link" href="standards.html#boost_regex.background.standards.perl">Perl</a>
  53. </h5>
  54. <p>
  55. Almost all Perl features are supported, except for:
  56. </p>
  57. <p>
  58. (?{code}) Not implementable in a compiled strongly typed language.
  59. </p>
  60. <p>
  61. (??{code}) Not implementable in a compiled strongly typed language.
  62. </p>
  63. <p>
  64. (*VERB) The <a href="http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html#Special-Backtracking-Control-Verbs" target="_top">backtracking
  65. control verbs</a> are not recognised or implemented at this time.
  66. </p>
  67. <p>
  68. In addition the following features behave slightly differently from Perl:
  69. </p>
  70. <p>
  71. ^ $ \Z These recognise any line termination sequence, and not just \n: see
  72. the Unicode requirements below.
  73. </p>
  74. <h5>
  75. <a name="boost_regex.background.standards.h3"></a>
  76. <span class="phrase"><a name="boost_regex.background.standards.posix"></a></span><a class="link" href="standards.html#boost_regex.background.standards.posix">POSIX</a>
  77. </h5>
  78. <p>
  79. All the POSIX basic and extended regular expression features are supported,
  80. except that:
  81. </p>
  82. <p>
  83. No character collating names are recognized except those specified in the
  84. POSIX standard for the C locale, unless they are explicitly registered with
  85. the traits class.
  86. </p>
  87. <p>
  88. Character equivalence classes ( [[=a=]] etc) are probably buggy except on
  89. Win32. Implementing this feature requires knowledge of the format of the
  90. string sort keys produced by the system; if you need this, and the default
  91. implementation doesn't work on your platform, then you will need to supply
  92. a custom traits class.
  93. </p>
  94. <h5>
  95. <a name="boost_regex.background.standards.h4"></a>
  96. <span class="phrase"><a name="boost_regex.background.standards.unicode"></a></span><a class="link" href="standards.html#boost_regex.background.standards.unicode">Unicode</a>
  97. </h5>
  98. <p>
  99. The following comments refer to <a href="http://unicode.org/reports/tr18/" target="_top">Unicode
  100. Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expressions version 11</a>.
  101. </p>
  102. <div class="informaltable"><table class="table">
  103. <colgroup>
  104. <col>
  105. <col>
  106. <col>
  107. </colgroup>
  108. <thead><tr>
  109. <th>
  110. <p>
  111. Item
  112. </p>
  113. </th>
  114. <th>
  115. <p>
  116. Feature
  117. </p>
  118. </th>
  119. <th>
  120. <p>
  121. Support
  122. </p>
  123. </th>
  124. </tr></thead>
  125. <tbody>
  126. <tr>
  127. <td>
  128. <p>
  129. 1.1
  130. </p>
  131. </td>
  132. <td>
  133. <p>
  134. Hex Notation
  135. </p>
  136. </td>
  137. <td>
  138. <p>
  139. Yes: use \x{DDDD} to refer to code point UDDDD.
  140. </p>
  141. </td>
  142. </tr>
  143. <tr>
  144. <td>
  145. <p>
  146. 1.2
  147. </p>
  148. </td>
  149. <td>
  150. <p>
  151. Character Properties
  152. </p>
  153. </td>
  154. <td>
  155. <p>
  156. All the names listed under the General Category Property are supported.
  157. Script names and Other Names are not currently supported.
  158. </p>
  159. </td>
  160. </tr>
  161. <tr>
  162. <td>
  163. <p>
  164. 1.3
  165. </p>
  166. </td>
  167. <td>
  168. <p>
  169. Subtraction and Intersection
  170. </p>
  171. </td>
  172. <td>
  173. <p>
  174. Indirectly support by forward-lookahead:
  175. </p>
  176. <p>
  177. <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">(?=[[:</span><span class="identifier">X</span><span class="special">:]])[[:</span><span class="identifier">Y</span><span class="special">:]]</span></code>
  178. </p>
  179. <p>
  180. Gives the intersection of character properties X and Y.
  181. </p>
  182. <p>
  183. <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">(?![[:</span><span class="identifier">X</span><span class="special">:]])[[:</span><span class="identifier">Y</span><span class="special">:]]</span></code>
  184. </p>
  185. <p>
  186. Gives everything in Y that is not in X (subtraction).
  187. </p>
  188. </td>
  189. </tr>
  190. <tr>
  191. <td>
  192. <p>
  193. 1.4
  194. </p>
  195. </td>
  196. <td>
  197. <p>
  198. Simple Word Boundaries
  199. </p>
  200. </td>
  201. <td>
  202. <p>
  203. Conforming: non-spacing marks are included in the set of word characters.
  204. </p>
  205. </td>
  206. </tr>
  207. <tr>
  208. <td>
  209. <p>
  210. 1.5
  211. </p>
  212. </td>
  213. <td>
  214. <p>
  215. Caseless Matching
  216. </p>
  217. </td>
  218. <td>
  219. <p>
  220. Supported, note that at this level, case transformations are 1:1,
  221. many to many case folding operations are not supported (for example
  222. "&#223;" to "SS").
  223. </p>
  224. </td>
  225. </tr>
  226. <tr>
  227. <td>
  228. <p>
  229. 1.6
  230. </p>
  231. </td>
  232. <td>
  233. <p>
  234. Line Boundaries
  235. </p>
  236. </td>
  237. <td>
  238. <p>
  239. Supported, except that "." matches only one character
  240. of "\r\n". Other than that word boundaries match correctly;
  241. including not matching in the middle of a "\r\n" sequence.
  242. </p>
  243. </td>
  244. </tr>
  245. <tr>
  246. <td>
  247. <p>
  248. 1.7
  249. </p>
  250. </td>
  251. <td>
  252. <p>
  253. Code Points
  254. </p>
  255. </td>
  256. <td>
  257. <p>
  258. Supported: provided you use the u32* algorithms, then UTF-8, UTF-16
  259. and UTF-32 are all treated as sequences of 32-bit code points.
  260. </p>
  261. </td>
  262. </tr>
  263. <tr>
  264. <td>
  265. <p>
  266. 2.1
  267. </p>
  268. </td>
  269. <td>
  270. <p>
  271. Canonical Equivalence
  272. </p>
  273. </td>
  274. <td>
  275. <p>
  276. Not supported: it is up to the user of the library to convert all
  277. text into the same canonical form as the regular expression.
  278. </p>
  279. </td>
  280. </tr>
  281. <tr>
  282. <td>
  283. <p>
  284. 2.2
  285. </p>
  286. </td>
  287. <td>
  288. <p>
  289. Default Grapheme Clusters
  290. </p>
  291. </td>
  292. <td>
  293. <p>
  294. Not supported.
  295. </p>
  296. </td>
  297. </tr>
  298. <tr>
  299. <td>
  300. <p>
  301. 2.3Default Word Boundaries
  302. </p>
  303. </td>
  304. <td>
  305. <p>
  306. Not supported.
  307. </p>
  308. </td>
  309. <td class="auto-generated">&#160;</td>
  310. </tr>
  311. <tr>
  312. <td>
  313. <p>
  314. 2.4
  315. </p>
  316. </td>
  317. <td>
  318. <p>
  319. Default Loose Matches
  320. </p>
  321. </td>
  322. <td>
  323. <p>
  324. Not Supported.
  325. </p>
  326. </td>
  327. </tr>
  328. <tr>
  329. <td>
  330. <p>
  331. 2.5
  332. </p>
  333. </td>
  334. <td>
  335. <p>
  336. Named Properties
  337. </p>
  338. </td>
  339. <td>
  340. <p>
  341. Supported: the expression "[[:name:]]" or \N{name} matches
  342. the named character "name".
  343. </p>
  344. </td>
  345. </tr>
  346. <tr>
  347. <td>
  348. <p>
  349. 2.6
  350. </p>
  351. </td>
  352. <td>
  353. <p>
  354. Wildcard properties
  355. </p>
  356. </td>
  357. <td>
  358. <p>
  359. Not Supported.
  360. </p>
  361. </td>
  362. </tr>
  363. <tr>
  364. <td>
  365. <p>
  366. 3.1
  367. </p>
  368. </td>
  369. <td>
  370. <p>
  371. Tailored Punctuation.
  372. </p>
  373. </td>
  374. <td>
  375. <p>
  376. Not Supported.
  377. </p>
  378. </td>
  379. </tr>
  380. <tr>
  381. <td>
  382. <p>
  383. 3.2
  384. </p>
  385. </td>
  386. <td>
  387. <p>
  388. Tailored Grapheme Clusters
  389. </p>
  390. </td>
  391. <td>
  392. <p>
  393. Not Supported.
  394. </p>
  395. </td>
  396. </tr>
  397. <tr>
  398. <td>
  399. <p>
  400. 3.3
  401. </p>
  402. </td>
  403. <td>
  404. <p>
  405. Tailored Word Boundaries.
  406. </p>
  407. </td>
  408. <td>
  409. <p>
  410. Not Supported.
  411. </p>
  412. </td>
  413. </tr>
  414. <tr>
  415. <td>
  416. <p>
  417. 3.4
  418. </p>
  419. </td>
  420. <td>
  421. <p>
  422. Tailored Loose Matches
  423. </p>
  424. </td>
  425. <td>
  426. <p>
  427. Partial support: [[=c=]] matches characters with the same primary
  428. equivalence class as "c".
  429. </p>
  430. </td>
  431. </tr>
  432. <tr>
  433. <td>
  434. <p>
  435. 3.5
  436. </p>
  437. </td>
  438. <td>
  439. <p>
  440. Tailored Ranges
  441. </p>
  442. </td>
  443. <td>
  444. <p>
  445. Supported: [a-b] matches any character that collates in the range
  446. a to b, when the expression is constructed with the collate flag
  447. set.
  448. </p>
  449. </td>
  450. </tr>
  451. <tr>
  452. <td>
  453. <p>
  454. 3.6
  455. </p>
  456. </td>
  457. <td>
  458. <p>
  459. Context Matches
  460. </p>
  461. </td>
  462. <td>
  463. <p>
  464. Not Supported.
  465. </p>
  466. </td>
  467. </tr>
  468. <tr>
  469. <td>
  470. <p>
  471. 3.7
  472. </p>
  473. </td>
  474. <td>
  475. <p>
  476. Incremental Matches
  477. </p>
  478. </td>
  479. <td>
  480. <p>
  481. Supported: pass the flag <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">match_partial</span></code>
  482. to the regex algorithms.
  483. </p>
  484. </td>
  485. </tr>
  486. <tr>
  487. <td>
  488. <p>
  489. 3.8
  490. </p>
  491. </td>
  492. <td>
  493. <p>
  494. Unicode Set Sharing
  495. </p>
  496. </td>
  497. <td>
  498. <p>
  499. Not Supported.
  500. </p>
  501. </td>
  502. </tr>
  503. <tr>
  504. <td>
  505. <p>
  506. 3.9
  507. </p>
  508. </td>
  509. <td>
  510. <p>
  511. Possible Match Sets
  512. </p>
  513. </td>
  514. <td>
  515. <p>
  516. Not supported, however this information is used internally to optimise
  517. the matching of regular expressions, and return quickly if no match
  518. is possible.
  519. </p>
  520. </td>
  521. </tr>
  522. <tr>
  523. <td>
  524. <p>
  525. 3.10
  526. </p>
  527. </td>
  528. <td>
  529. <p>
  530. Folded Matching
  531. </p>
  532. </td>
  533. <td>
  534. <p>
  535. Partial Support: It is possible to achieve a similar effect by
  536. using a custom regular expression traits class.
  537. </p>
  538. </td>
  539. </tr>
  540. <tr>
  541. <td>
  542. <p>
  543. 3.11
  544. </p>
  545. </td>
  546. <td>
  547. <p>
  548. Custom Submatch Evaluation
  549. </p>
  550. </td>
  551. <td>
  552. <p>
  553. Not Supported.
  554. </p>
  555. </td>
  556. </tr>
  557. </tbody>
  558. </table></div>
  559. </div>
  560. <table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr>
  561. <td align="left"></td>
  562. <td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright &#169; 1998-2013 John Maddock<p>
  563. Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
  564. file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt" target="_top">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)
  565. </p>
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