Boost.Regex

Contacts and Acknowledgements

The author can be contacted at john@johnmaddock.co.uk; the home page for this library is at www.boost.org.

I am indebted to Robert Sedgewick's "Algorithms in C++" for forcing me to think about algorithms and their performance, and to the folks at boost for forcing me to think, period.

Eric Niebler, author of the GRETA regular expression component, has shared several important ideas, in a series of long discussions.

Pete Becker, of Dinkumware Ltd, has helped enormously with the standardisation proposal language.

The following people have all contributed useful comments or fixes: Dave Abrahams, Mike Allison, Edan Ayal, Jayashree Balasubramanian, Jan Bölsche, Beman Dawes, Paul Baxter, David Bergman, David Dennerline, Edward Diener, Peter Dimov, Robert Dunn, Fabio Forno, Tobias Gabrielsson, Rob Gillen, Marc Gregoire, Chris Hecker, Nick Hodapp, Jesse Jones, Martin Jost, Boris Krasnovskiy, Jan Hermelink, Max Leung, Wei-hao Lin, Jens Maurer, Richard Peters, Heiko Schmidt, Jason Shirk, Gerald Slacik, Scobie Smith, Mike Smyth, Alexander Sokolovsky, Hervé Poirier, Michael Raykh, Marc Recht, Scott VanCamp, Bruno Voigt, Alexey Voinov, Jerry Waldorf, Rob Ward, Lealon Watts, John Wismar, Thomas Witt and Yuval Yosef. I am also grateful to the manuals supplied with the Henry Spencer, Perl and GNU regular expression libraries - wherever possible I have tried to maintain compatibility with these libraries and with the POSIX standard - the code however is entirely my own, including any bugs! I can absolutely guarantee that I will not fix any bugs I don't know about, so if you have any comments or spot any bugs, please get in touch.

Useful further information can be found at:

Short tutorials on regular expressions can be found here and here.

The main book on regular expressions is Mastering Regular Expressions, published by O'Reilly.

Information on the Boost.regex standardization proposal, along with other standard library extension proposals can be found on the C++ Committees web pages.

TheOpen Unix Specification contains a wealth of useful material, including the regular expression syntax, and specifications for <regex.h> and <nl_types.h>.

The Pattern Matching Pointers site is a "must visit" resource for anyone interested in pattern matching.

Glimpse and Agrep, use a simplified regular expression syntax to achieve faster search times.

Udi Manber and Ricardo Baeza-Yates both have a selection of useful pattern matching papers available from their respective web sites.

Revised 24 Oct 2003

Use, modification and distribution are subject to the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)