POSIX Extended Regular Expression Syntax
POSIX extended regular expressions can be constructed in Boost.Regex by passing the flag extended to the regex constructor.
boost::regex e1(my_expression boost::regex::extended);
See POSIX Extended Regular Expression Syntax for more information regarding:
- Wildcards
- Anchors
- Marked sub-expressions
- Repeats
- Alternation
- Character sets
- Escapes