[Boost-users] Escaping boost.regex literal string fragments

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"? There are manual solutions, like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1252992/how-to-escape-a-string-for-use-in..., but shouldn't that be part of the API? Does C++11's std::regex, based on boost::regex, include this API? Thanks, --DD