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4      <title>Boost.Regex: Standards Conformance</title>
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16                  <H1 align="center">Boost.Regex</H1>
17                  <H2 align="center">Standards Conformance</H2>
18               </TD>
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26      <H3>C++</H3>
27      <P>Boost.regex is intended to conform to the <A href="http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2003/n1429.htm">
28            regular expression standardization proposal</A>, which will appear in a
29         future C++ standard technical report (and hopefully in a future version of the
30         standard).&nbsp;</P>
31      <H3>ECMAScript / JavaScript</H3>
32      <P>All of the ECMAScript regular expression syntax features are supported, except
33         that:</P>
34      <P>Negated class escapes (\S, \D and \W) are not permitted inside character class
35         definitions ( [...] ).</P>
36      <P>The escape sequence \u matches any upper case character (the same as
37         [[:upper:]])&nbsp;rather than a Unicode escape sequence; use \x{DDDD} for
38         Unicode escape sequences.</P>
39      <H3>Perl</H3>
40      <P>Almost all Perl features are supported, except for:</P>
41      <P>
42         <TABLE id="Table2" cellSpacing="1" cellPadding="1" width="100%" border="0">
43            <TR>
44               <TD>(?{code})</TD>
45               <TD>Not implementable in a compiled strongly typed language.</TD>
46            </TR>
47            <TR>
48               <TD>(??{code})</TD>
49               <TD>Not implementable in a compiled strongly typed language.</TD>
50            </TR>
51         </TABLE>
52      </P>
53      <H3>POSIX</H3>
54      <P>All the POSIX basic and extended regular expression features are supported,
55         except that:</P>
56      <P>No character collating names are recognized except those specified in the POSIX
57         standard for the C locale, unless they are explicitly registered with the
58         traits class.</P>
59      <P>Character equivalence classes ( [[=a=]] etc) are probably buggy except on
60         Win32.&nbsp; Implementing this feature requires knowledge of the format of the
61         string sort keys produced by the system; if you need this, and the default
62         implementation doesn't work on your platform, then you will need to supply a
63         custom traits class.</P>
64      <H3>Unicode</H3>
65      <P>The following comments refer to&nbsp;<A href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/">Unicode
66            Technical
67            <SPAN>Standard
68</SPAN>#18: Unicode Regular Expressions</A>&nbsp;version 9.</P>
69      <P>
70         <TABLE id="Table3" cellSpacing="1" cellPadding="1" width="100%" border="0">
71            <TR>
72               <TD>#</TD>
73               <TD>Feature</TD>
74               <TD>Support</TD>
75            </TR>
76            <TR>
77               <TD>1.1</TD>
78               <TD>Hex Notation</TD>
79               <TD>Yes: use \x{DDDD} to refer to code point UDDDD.</TD>
80            </TR>
81            <TR>
82               <TD>1.2</TD>
83               <TD>Character Properties</TD>
84               <TD>All the names listed under the&nbsp;<A href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/#Categories">General
85                     Category Property</A> are supported.&nbsp; Script names and Other Names are
86                  not currently supported.</TD>
87            </TR>
88            <TR>
89               <TD>1.3</TD>
90               <TD><A name="Subtraction_and_Intersection">Subtraction</A> and Intersection</TD>
91               <TD>
92                  <P>Indirectly support by forward-lookahead:
93                  </P>
94                  <P>(?=[[:X:]])[[:Y:]]</P>
95                  <P>Gives the intersection of character properties X and Y.</P>
96                  <P>(?![[:X:]])[[:Y:]]</P>
97                  <P>Gives everything in Y that is not in X (subtraction).</P>
98               </TD>
99            </TR>
100            <TR>
101               <TD>1.4</TD>
102               <TD><A name="Simple_Word_Boundaries">Simple Word Boundaries</A></TD>
103               <TD>Conforming: non-spacing marks are included in the set of word characters.</TD>
104            </TR>
105            <TR>
106               <TD>1.5</TD>
107               <TD>Caseless Matching</TD>
108               <TD>Supported, note that at this level, case transformations are 1:1, many to many
109                  case folding operations are not supported (for example&nbsp;"ß" to "SS").</TD>
110            </TR>
111            <TR>
112               <TD>1.6</TD>
113               <TD>Line Boundaries</TD>
114               <TD>Supported, except that "." matches only one character of "\r\n". Other than
115                  that word boundaries match correctly; including not matching in the middle of a
116                  "\r\n" sequence.</TD>
117            </TR>
118            <TR>
119               <TD>1.7</TD>
120               <TD>Code Points</TD>
121               <TD>Supported: provided you use the <A href="icu_strings.html">u32* algorithms</A>,
122                  then UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 are all treated as sequences of 32-bit code
123                  points.</TD>
124            </TR>
125            <TR>
126               <TD>2.1</TD>
127               <TD>Canonical Equivalence</TD>
128               <TD>Not supported: it is up to the user of the library to convert all text into
129                  the same canonical form as the regular expression.</TD>
130            </TR>
131            <TR>
132               <TD>2.2</TD>
133               <TD>Default Grapheme Clusters</TD>
134               <TD>Not supported.</TD>
135            </TR>
136            <TR>
137               <TD>2.3</TD>
138               <TD><!--StartFragment -->
139                  <P><A name="Default_Word_Boundaries">Default Word Boundaries</A></P>
140               </TD>
141               <TD>Not supported.</TD>
142            </TR>
143            <TR>
144               <TD>2.4</TD>
145               <TD><!--StartFragment -->
146                  <P><A name="Default_Loose_Matches">Default Loose Matches</A></P>
147               </TD>
148               <TD>Not Supported.</TD>
149            </TR>
150            <TR>
151               <TD>2.5</TD>
152               <TD>Name Properties</TD>
153               <TD>Supported: the expression "[[:name:]]" or \N{name} matches the named character
154                  "name".</TD>
155            </TR>
156            <TR>
157               <TD>2.6</TD>
158               <TD>Wildcard properties</TD>
159               <TD>Not Supported.</TD>
160            </TR>
161            <TR>
162               <TD>3.1</TD>
163               <TD>Tailored Punctuation.</TD>
164               <TD>Not Supported.</TD>
165            </TR>
166            <TR>
167               <TD>3.2</TD>
168               <TD>Tailored Grapheme Clusters</TD>
169               <TD>Not Supported.</TD>
170            </TR>
171            <TR>
172               <TD>3.3</TD>
173               <TD>Tailored Word Boundaries.</TD>
174               <TD>Not Supported.</TD>
175            </TR>
176            <TR>
177               <TD>3.4</TD>
178               <TD>Tailored Loose Matches</TD>
179               <TD>Partial support: [[=c=]] matches characters with the same primary equivalence
180                  class as "c".</TD>
181            </TR>
182            <TR>
183               <TD>3.5</TD>
184               <TD>Tailored Ranges</TD>
185               <TD>Supported: [a-b] matches any character that collates in the range a to b, when
186                  the expression is constructed with the <A href="syntax_option_type.html">collate</A>
187                  flag set.</TD>
188            </TR>
189            <TR>
190               <TD>3.6</TD>
191               <TD>Context Matches</TD>
192               <TD>Not Supported.</TD>
193            </TR>
194            <TR>
195               <TD>3.7</TD>
196               <TD>Incremental Matches</TD>
197               <TD>Supported: pass the flag <A href="match_flag_type.html">match_partial</A> to
198                  the regex algorithms.</TD>
199            </TR>
200            <TR>
201               <TD>3.8</TD>
202               <TD>Unicode Set Sharing</TD>
203               <TD>Not Supported.</TD>
204            </TR>
205            <TR>
206               <TD>3.9</TD>
207               <TD>Possible Match Sets</TD>
208               <TD>Not supported, however this information is used internally to optimise the
209                  matching of regular expressions, and return quickly if no match is possible.</TD>
210            </TR>
211            <TR>
212               <TD>3.10</TD>
213               <TD>Folded Matching</TD>
214               <TD>Partial Support:&nbsp; It is possible to achieve a similar effect by using a
215                  custom regular expression traits class.</TD>
216            </TR>
217            <TR>
218               <TD>3.11</TD>
219               <TD>Custom&nbsp;Submatch Evaluation</TD>
220               <TD>Not Supported.</TD>
221            </TR>
222         </TABLE>
223      </P>
224      <HR>
225      <p>Revised&nbsp; 
226         <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan --> 
227         28 June 2004&nbsp; 
228         <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="39359" --></p>
229      <p><i>© Copyright John Maddock&nbsp;1998-
230            <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%Y" startspan -->  2004<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="39359" --></i></p>
231      <P><I>Use, modification and distribution are subject to the Boost Software License,
232            Version 1.0. (See accompanying file <A href="../../../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</A>
233            or copy at <A href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</A>)</I></P>
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