- Booster.Regex is just a wrapper of PCRE.
Oh heavens. So lets see... no wide character support,
IMHO wide characters should be vanished from C++ it is the worst way to represent Unicode (and I know thing or two about Unicode).
See:
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1049947/should-utf-16-be-considered-harmf... - http://cppcms.sourceforge.net/boost_locale/html/tutorial.html#myths
And PCRE supports Unicode quite well with UTF-8 support. And if you really want Unicode - only ICU can help you.
Which is supported by Boost.Regex as well. For Win 32 work though, you simply cannot escape wchar_t whatever you may think of it - this is especially true of the embedded windows platforms which are effectively wchar_t only.
no support for segmented containers (think really large texts stored in discontinous memory - I've had people using this support to search multi-gigabyte texts that could never be stored in memory or searched via a C interface).
Ahhhhh... Are you running regex over multi-gigabyte texts?
Then something wrong with your design.
Not me, but I know folks who are. And no there's nothing wrong with their design - if you a multi-gigabyte text on disk (from some other source outside your control) you have to handle it *somehow*. Sure you could use partial-matches, but they're only an approximation to what you really want to do. John.