Re: [Dev-C++] Regular expressions: string substitution with pcre or any other library?

[Reid T. <rei...@at...>]

Bernd Muent wrote:
> Hi together,
> most of the time I'm using .net framework to programm C++.
> F.E. I can do the following:
>
> Regex* rex;
> String* 
> replacedTags=rex->Replace(originalLine,S"<(.*)?>,S"<SPECIAL>$1</SPECIAL>"); 
>
>
> For a special program I would like to do the same in a standard C++ 
> program.
> I found the library pcre and after some starting problems I'm able to 
> compile and link to it.
> But with this library I can only test if a string matches to a pattern 
> and extract the corresponding substring.
> I think I would be able to write a function for replacing this 
> substring, but there must have someone before me who did this work 
> already ;-)
>
> Searching with google "pcre string replace substitute" or whatever I 
> did not find any solution for pcre nor any other library for the same 
> thing (it must be a library which can be used with Windows XP).
>
> Thank you for any hints, Bernd
>
>
never used them myself, but the boost libraries may be very helpful...

http://www.boost.org/libs/regex/doc/regex_replace.html

http://www.boost.org/index.htm