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Function regex_replace

boost::xpressive::regex_replace — Build an output sequence given an input sequence, a regex, and a format string.

Synopsis

template<typename OutIter, typename OtherBidiIter, typename BidiIter> 
  OutIter regex_replace(OutIter out, OtherBidiIter begin, OtherBidiIter end, 
                        basic_regex< BidiIter > const & re, 
                        std::basic_string< typename iterator_value< BidiIter >::type > const & fmt, 
                        regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);
template<typename Char> 
  std::basic_string< Char > 
  regex_replace(std::basic_string< Char > const & str, 
                basic_regex< typename std::basic_string< Char >::const_iterator > const & re, 
                std::basic_string< Char > const & fmt, 
                regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Description

Constructs a regex_iterator object: regex_iterator< BidiIter > i(begin, end, re, flags), and uses i to enumerate through all of the matches m of type match_results< BidiIter > that occur within the sequence [begin, end). If no such matches are found and !(flags & format_no_copy) then calls std::copy(begin, end, out). Otherwise, for each match found, if !(flags & format_no_copy) calls std::copy(m.prefix().first, m.prefix().second, out), and then calls m.format(out, fmt, flags). Finally if !(flags & format_no_copy) calls std::copy(last_m.suffix().first, last_m.suffix().second, out) where last_m is a copy of the last match found. If flags & format_first_only is non-zero then only the first match found is replaced.

Parameters:
begin

The beginning of the input sequence.

end

The end of the input sequence.

flags

Optional match flags, used to control how the expression is matched against the sequence. (See match_flag_type.)

fmt

The format string used to format the replacement sequence.

out

An output iterator into which the output sequence is written.

re

The regular expression object to use.

Requires:

Types BidiIter and OtherBidiIter meet the requirements of a Bidirectional Iterator (24.1.4).

Type OutIter meets the requirements of an Output Iterator (24.1.2).

OtherBidiIter is convertible to BidiIter.

[begin,end) denotes a valid iterator range.

Returns:

The value of the output iterator after the output sequence has been written to it.

Throws: regex_error on stack exhaustion or invalid format string.
Copyright © 2003, 2004 Eric Niebler

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