Boost-Supported RegEx Character Classes

Version:
2023.1
Last modified: May 17, 2023

Boost.Regex always support these class names:

Name POSIX-standard name Description Example
[:alnum:] Yes Alpha-numeric characters [A-Za-z0-9]
[:alpha:] Yes Alphabetic characters [A-Za-z]
[:blank:] Yes Whitespace characters that are not line separators space or tab
[:cntrl:] Yes Control characters Any character not part of the character class: [:upper:], [:lower:], [:alpha:], [:digit:], [:punct:], [:graph:], [:print:], [:xdigit:]
[:d:] No Decimal digits [0–9]
[:digit:] Yes Decimal digits [0–9]
[:graph:] Yes Characters with graphic representation [A–Z][a–z][0–9][:punct:]
[:l:] No Lowercase characters [a–z]
[:lower:] Yes Lowercase characters [a–z]
[:print:] Yes Characters that display when printed [:graph:] and space
[:punct:] Yes Punctuation characters ! ' # S % & ' ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ / ] ^ _ { | } ~
[:s:] No Whitespace characters tab, new line, vertical tab, form feed, carriage return, space
[:space:] Yes Whitespace characters tab, new line, vertical tab, form feed, carriage return, space
[:unicode:] No Extended characters whose code point value is above 255

Any character with code point above 255.

[:u:] No Uppercase characters [A–Z]
[:upper:] Yes Uppercase characters [A–Z]
[:w:] No Alphanumeric characters and underscore [A-Za-z0-9_]
[:word:] No Alphanumeric characters and underscore [A-Za-z0-9_]
[:xdigit:] Yes Hexadecimal digit characters [A-Fa-f0-9]

 

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