28 Text processing library [text]

28.6 Regular expressions library [re]

28.6.1 General [re.general]

Subclause [re] describes components that C++ programs may use to perform operations involving regular expression matching and searching.
The following subclauses describe a basic regular expression class template and its traits that can handle char-like ([strings.general]) template arguments, two specializations of this class template that handle sequences of char and wchar_t, a class template that holds the result of a regular expression match, a series of algorithms that allow a character sequence to be operated upon by a regular expression, and two iterator types for enumerating regular expression matches, as summarized in Table 112.
Table 112: Regular expressions library summary [tab:re.summary]
Subclause
Header
Requirements
Constants
<regex>
Exception type
Traits
Regular expression template
Submatches
Match results
Algorithms
Iterators
Grammar
The ECMAScript Language Specification described in Standard Ecma-262 is called ECMA-262 in this Clause.