1Boost Regex Library 2============================ 3 4The Boost Regex library provides regular expression support for C++, this library is the ancestor to std::regex and still goes beyond 5and offers some advantages to, the standard version. 6 7The full documentation is available on [boost.org](http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/libs/regex/index.html). 8 9## Support, bugs and feature requests ## 10 11Bugs and feature requests can be reported through the [Gitub issue tracker](https://github.com/boostorg/regex/issues) 12(see [open issues](https://github.com/boostorg/regex/issues) and 13[closed issues](https://github.com/boostorg/regex/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed)). 14 15You can submit your changes through a [pull request](https://github.com/boostorg/regex/pulls). 16 17There is no mailing-list specific to Boost Regex, although you can use the general-purpose Boost [mailing-list](http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users) using the tag [regex]. 18 19 20## Development ## 21 22Clone the whole boost project, which includes the individual Boost projects as submodules ([see boost+git doc](https://github.com/boostorg/boost/wiki/Getting-Started)): 23 24 git clone https://github.com/boostorg/boost 25 cd boost 26 git submodule update --init 27 28The Boost Regex Library is located in `libs/regex/`. 29 30### Running tests ### 31First, make sure you are in `libs/regex/test`. 32You can either run all the tests listed in `Jamfile.v2` or run a single test: 33 34 ../../../b2 <- run all tests 35 ../../../b2 regex_regress <- single test 36 37