On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 6:10 PM, John Maddock <jz.maddock@googlemail.com> wrote:

On 13/10/2015 14:20, Dominique Devienne wrote:

Is there no equivalent to http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qregexp.html#escape in Boost.Regex, i.e. a way to escape all special characters so they match "literally"?

No, can you use Perl's \Q \E construct for the same effect?

Sounds like I could indeed. Didn't know about them. Thanks John!

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_58_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/syntax/perl_syntax.html#boost_regex.syntax.perl_syntax.quoting_escape

Does C++11's std::regex, based on boost::regex, include this API? Thanks, --DD

No.

I'll try \Q \E using std::regex too.