1<html> 2<head> 3<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> 4<title>Introduction to using Regex with ICU</title> 5<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../../../../../../../doc/src/boostbook.css" type="text/css"> 6<meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1"> 7<link rel="home" href="../../../../index.html" title="Boost.Regex 5.1.4"> 8<link rel="up" href="../icu.html" title="Working With Unicode and ICU String Types"> 9<link rel="prev" href="../icu.html" title="Working With Unicode and ICU String Types"> 10<link rel="next" href="unicode_types.html" title="Unicode regular expression types"> 11</head> 12<body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> 13<table cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr> 14<td valign="top"><img alt="Boost C++ Libraries" width="277" height="86" src="../../../../../../../../boost.png"></td> 15<td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../../../index.html">Home</a></td> 16<td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../../../libs/libraries.htm">Libraries</a></td> 17<td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/people.html">People</a></td> 18<td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/faq.html">FAQ</a></td> 19<td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../../../more/index.htm">More</a></td> 20</tr></table> 21<hr> 22<div class="spirit-nav"> 23<a accesskey="p" href="../icu.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../icu.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../../../../index.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="unicode_types.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> 24</div> 25<div class="section"> 26<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"> 27<a name="boost_regex.ref.non_std_strings.icu.intro"></a><a class="link" href="intro.html" title="Introduction to using Regex with ICU">Introduction 28 to using Regex with ICU</a> 29</h5></div></div></div> 30<p> 31 The header: 32 </p> 33<pre class="programlisting"><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">regex</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">icu</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span><span class="special">></span> 34</pre> 35<p> 36 contains the data types and algorithms necessary for working with regular 37 expressions in a Unicode aware environment. 38 </p> 39<p> 40 In order to use this header you will need the <a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/" target="_top">ICU 41 library</a>, and you will need to have built the Boost.Regex library 42 with <a class="link" href="../../../install.html#boost_regex.install.building_with_unicode_and_icu_su">ICU 43 support enabled</a>. 44 </p> 45<p> 46 The header will enable you to: 47 </p> 48<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "> 49<li class="listitem"> 50 Create regular expressions that treat Unicode strings as sequences 51 of UTF-32 code points. 52 </li> 53<li class="listitem"> 54 Create regular expressions that support various Unicode data properties, 55 including character classification. 56 </li> 57<li class="listitem"> 58 Transparently search Unicode strings that are encoded as either UTF-8, 59 UTF-16 or UTF-32. 60 </li> 61</ul></div> 62</div> 63<table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> 64<td align="left"></td> 65<td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 1998-2013 John Maddock<p> 66 Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying 67 file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt" target="_top">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>) 68 </p> 69</div></td> 70</tr></table> 71<hr> 72<div class="spirit-nav"> 73<a accesskey="p" href="../icu.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../icu.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../../../../index.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="unicode_types.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> 74</div> 75</body> 76</html> 77