30 Regular expressions library [re] (original) (raw)

30.10 Regular expression algorithms [re.alg]

30.10.1 Exceptions [re.except]

The algorithms described in subclause [re.alg] may throw an exception of type regex_­error.

If such an exception e is thrown,e.code() shall return either regex_­constants​::​error_­complexityor regex_­constants​::​error_­stack.

30.10.2 regex_­match [re.alg.match]

template<class BidirectionalIterator, class Allocator, class charT, class traits> bool regex_match(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last, match_results<BidirectionalIterator, Allocator>& m,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Effects: Determines whether there is a match between the regular expression e, and all of the character sequence [first, last).

The parameter flags is used to control how the expression is matched against the character sequence.

When determining if there is a match, only potential matches that match the entire character sequence are considered.

Returns true if such a match exists, falseotherwise.

[Example 1: std::regex re("Get|GetValue"); std::cmatch m; regex_search("GetValue", m, re); regex_match ("GetValue", m, re); regex_search("GetValues", m, re); regex_match ("GetValues", m, re); — _end example_]

Postconditions: m.ready() == true in all cases.

If the function returns false, then the effect on parameter m is unspecified except that m.size()returns 0 and m.empty() returns true.

Otherwise the effects on parameter m are given in Table 141.

Table 141: Effects of regex_­match algorithm [tab:re.alg.match]

🔗 Element Value
🔗 m.size() 1 + e.mark_­count()
🔗 m.empty() false
🔗 m.prefix().first first
🔗 m.prefix().second first
🔗 m.prefix().matched false
🔗 m.suffix().first last
🔗 m.suffix().second last
🔗 m.suffix().matched false
🔗 m[0].first first
🔗 m[0].second last
🔗 m[0].matched true
🔗 m[n].first For all integers 0 < n < m.size(), the start of the sequence that matched sub-expression n. Alternatively, if sub-expression n did not participate in the match, then last.
🔗 m[n].second For all integers 0 < n < m.size(), the end of the sequence that matched sub-expression n. Alternatively, if sub-expression n did not participate in the match, then last.
🔗 m[n].matched For all integers 0 < n < m.size(), true if sub-expression n participated in the match, false otherwise.

template<class BidirectionalIterator, class charT, class traits> bool regex_match(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Effects: Behaves “as if” by constructing an instance ofmatch_­results<BidirectionalIterator> what, and then returning the result ofregex_­match(first, last, what, e, flags).

template<class charT, class Allocator, class traits> bool regex_match(const charT* str, match_results<const charT*, Allocator>& m,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Returns: regex_­match(str, str + char_­traits<charT>​::​length(str), m, e, flags).

template<class ST, class SA, class Allocator, class charT, class traits> bool regex_match(const basic_string<charT, ST, SA>& s, match_results<typename basic_string<charT, ST, SA>::const_iterator, Allocator>& m,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Returns: regex_­match(s.begin(), s.end(), m, e, flags).

template<class charT, class traits> bool regex_match(const charT* str,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Returns: regex_­match(str, str + char_­traits<charT>​::​length(str), e, flags)

template<class ST, class SA, class charT, class traits> bool regex_match(const basic_string<charT, ST, SA>& s,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Returns: regex_­match(s.begin(), s.end(), e, flags).

30.10.3 regex_­search [re.alg.search]

template<class BidirectionalIterator, class Allocator, class charT, class traits> bool regex_search(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last, match_results<BidirectionalIterator, Allocator>& m,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Effects: Determines whether there is some sub-sequence within [first, last) that matches the regular expression e.

The parameter flags is used to control how the expression is matched against the character sequence.

Returns true if such a sequence exists, false otherwise.

Postconditions: m.ready() == true in all cases.

If the function returns false, then the effect on parameter m is unspecified except that m.size()returns 0 and m.empty() returns true.

Otherwise the effects on parameter m are given in Table 142.

Table 142: Effects of regex_­search algorithm [tab:re.alg.search]

🔗 Element Value
🔗 m.size() 1 + e.mark_­count()
🔗 m.empty() false
🔗 m.prefix().first first
🔗 m.prefix().second m[0].first
🔗 m.prefix().matched m.prefix().first != m.prefix().second
🔗 m.suffix().first m[0].second
🔗 m.suffix().second last
🔗 m.suffix().matched m.suffix().first != m.suffix().second
🔗 m[0].first The start of the sequence of characters that matched the regular expression
🔗 m[0].second The end of the sequence of characters that matched the regular expression
🔗 m[0].matched true
🔗 m[n].first For all integers 0 < n < m.size(), the start of the sequence that matched sub-expression n. Alternatively, if sub-expression ndid not participate in the match, then last.
🔗 m[n].second For all integers 0 < n < m.size(), the end of the sequence that matched sub-expression n. Alternatively, if sub-expression n did not participate in the match, then last.
🔗 m[n].matched For all integers 0 < n < m.size(), true if sub-expression nparticipated in the match, false otherwise.

template<class charT, class Allocator, class traits> bool regex_search(const charT* str, match_results<const charT*, Allocator>& m,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Returns: regex_­search(str, str + char_­traits<charT>​::​length(str), m, e, flags).

template<class ST, class SA, class Allocator, class charT, class traits> bool regex_search(const basic_string<charT, ST, SA>& s, match_results<typename basic_string<charT, ST, SA>::const_iterator, Allocator>& m,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Returns: regex_­search(s.begin(), s.end(), m, e, flags).

template<class BidirectionalIterator, class charT, class traits> bool regex_search(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Effects: Behaves “as if” by constructing an object whatof type match_­results<BidirectionalIterator> and returningregex_­search(first, last, what, e, flags).

template<class charT, class traits> bool regex_search(const charT* str,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Returns: regex_­search(str, str + char_­traits<charT>​::​length(str), e, flags).

template<class ST, class SA, class charT, class traits> bool regex_search(const basic_string<charT, ST, SA>& s,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Returns: regex_­search(s.begin(), s.end(), e, flags).

30.10.4 regex_­replace [re.alg.replace]

template<class OutputIterator, class BidirectionalIterator,class traits, class charT, class ST, class SA> OutputIterator regex_replace(OutputIterator out, BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e,const basic_string<charT, ST, SA>& fmt, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);template<class OutputIterator, class BidirectionalIterator, class traits, class charT> OutputIterator regex_replace(OutputIterator out, BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e,const charT* fmt, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Effects: Constructs a regex_­iterator object ias if byregex_iterator<BidirectionalIterator, charT, traits> i(first, last, e, flags) and uses i to enumerate through all of the matches m of type match_­results<BidirectionalIterator>that occur within the sequence [first, last).

If no such matches are found and!(flags & regex_­constants​::​format_­no_­copy), then callsout = copy(first, last, out)

If any matches are found then, for each such match:

Finally, if such a match is found and !(flags & regex_­constants​::​format_­no_­copy), callsout = copy(last_m.suffix().first, last_m.suffix().second, out) where last_­m is a copy of the last match found.

If flags & regex_­constants​::​format_­first_­onlyis nonzero, then only the first match found is replaced.

template<class traits, class charT, class ST, class SA, class FST, class FSA> basic_string<charT, ST, SA> regex_replace(const basic_string<charT, ST, SA>& s,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e,const basic_string<charT, FST, FSA>& fmt, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);template<class traits, class charT, class ST, class SA> basic_string<charT, ST, SA> regex_replace(const basic_string<charT, ST, SA>& s,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e,const charT* fmt, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Effects: Constructs an empty string result of type basic_­string<charT, ST, SA> and calls:regex_replace(back_inserter(result), s.begin(), s.end(), e, fmt, flags);

template<class traits, class charT, class ST, class SA> basic_string<charT> regex_replace(const charT* s,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e,const basic_string<charT, ST, SA>& fmt, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);template<class traits, class charT> basic_string<charT> regex_replace(const charT* s,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e,const charT* fmt, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Effects: Constructs an empty string result of type basic_­string<charT> and calls:regex_replace(back_inserter(result), s, s + char_traits<charT>::length(s), e, fmt, flags);