C++Talk.NET C++ language newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  RegEx cross-platform C++ library          C++Talk.NET Forum Index -> C++ Language (Moderated) View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Vitaly Repin Guest Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:07 am    Post subject: RegEx cross-platform C++ library Hello! I am looking for some regular expressions library which should meet the following demands: 1) It can be compiled by Visual C++, gcc and comeau 2) It should be small enough. I know about Boost.Regex, of course. But this is a part of Boost, the _huge_ collection of useful libraries. Can you recommend me some other library? Thanks & Good bye! -- WBR & WBW, Vitaly [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ] Back to top John B. Williston Guest Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:02 am    Post subject: Re: RegEx cross-platform C++ library On 22 Jul 2005 21:07:36 -0400, "Vitaly Repin" <programm (AT) metrocom (DOT) ru> wrote: Quote: I know about Boost.Regex, of course. But this is a part of Boost, the _huge_ collection of useful libraries. Can you recommend me some other library? NB: The regex library in boost is a small, self-contained unit, easily included on its own in your applications. CPT Phileosophos Clan Executive Officer (XO) Steel Maelstrom - http://www.steelmaelstrom.com [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ] Back to top Jonathan Turkanis Guest Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:04 am    Post subject: Re: RegEx cross-platform C++ library Vitaly Repin wrote: Quote: Hello! I am looking for some regular expressions library which should meet the following demands: 1) It can be compiled by Visual C++, gcc and comeau 2) It should be small enough. I know about Boost.Regex, of course. But this is a part of Boost, the _huge_ collection of useful libraries. Why does the size of Boost bother you? If the problem is that you don't want to have to include all of Boost in your source distribution, you can use the bcp tool to extract just the part of Boost you need: http://www.boost.org/tools/bcp/bcp.html. I'd strongly recommend using Boost.Regex, since it will soon be be coming to a compiler near you -- as part of TR1. Quote: Can you recommend me some other library? Thanks & Good bye! Jonathan [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ] Back to top Fabio Fracassi Guest Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:05 am    Post subject: Re: RegEx cross-platform C++ library Vitaly Repin wrote: Quote: Hello! I am looking for some regular expressions library which should meet the following demands: 1) It can be compiled by Visual C++, gcc and comeau 2) It should be small enough. I know about Boost.Regex, of course. But this is a part of Boost, the _huge_ collection of useful libraries. You know that you can install all Boost libraries seperately? You should probably have a look at the tr1 proposal. It contains a regex library, which will probably be included in the next C++ Standard. I don't know if there are any implementations of it yet. By the way, the tr1::regex were heavily influenced by boost::regex, so it probably won't hurt to have a look at it. HTH Fabio [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ] Back to top Vitaly Repin Guest Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 11:31 am    Post subject: Re: RegEx cross-platform C++ library Hello! Quote: 1) It can be compiled by Visual C++, gcc and comeau 2) It should be small enough. I know about Boost.Regex, of course. But this is a part of Boost, the _huge_ collection of useful libraries. Why does the size of Boost bother you? If the problem is that you don't want to have to include all of Boost in your source distribution, you can use the bcp tool to extract just the part of Boost you need: http://www.boost.org/tools/bcp/bcp.html. Thank you. I really have not known about bcp. It seems to me, Boost.Regex is my choice now. Good bye! -- WBR & WBW, Vitaly [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ] Back to top James Kanze Guest Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 11:41 am    Post subject: Re: RegEx cross-platform C++ library Jonathan Turkanis wrote: Quote: Vitaly Repin wrote: I'd strongly recommend using Boost.Regex, since it will soon be be coming to a compiler near you -- as part of TR1. I'd recommend it for a completely different reason: it's complete, and it works. Which aren't trivial conditions. As to coming to a compiler near me... I certainly hope so, because at present, the compilers near me (Sun CC) don't support Boost at all. -- James Kanze mailto: [email]james.kanze (AT) free (DOT) fr[/email] Conseils en informatique orientée objet/ Beratung in objektorientierter Datenverarbeitung 9 pl. Pierre Sémard, 78210 St.-Cyr-l'École, France +33 (0)1 30 23 00 34 [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ] Back to top Harold Bamford Guest Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 11:42 am    Post subject: Re: RegEx cross-platform C++ library I also had this problem. When I looked at boost::regex, it looked to be very powerful but when I tried extract just the parts for regex, I got over 200 files! Perhaps I did it wrong. Anyway, my need was for something in an embedded system (extreme memory limitations) and I finally chose pcre: http://www.pcre.org/ It had the added advantage of being completely free, even for commercial use. And there are some free class wrappers to make it easier to use (pme, I think). Good luck! -- Harold Bamford "Vitaly Repin" <programm (AT) metrocom (DOT) ru> wrote Quote: Hello! I am looking for some regular expressions library which should meet the following demands: 1) It can be compiled by Visual C++, gcc and comeau 2) It should be small enough. I know about Boost.Regex, of course. But this is a part of Boost, the _huge_ collection of useful libraries. Can you recommend me some other library? [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ] Back to top Alex Blekhman Guest Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 6:05 pm    Post subject: Re: RegEx cross-platform C++ library Vitaly Repin wrote: Quote: Hello! I am looking for some regular expressions library which should meet the following demands: 1) It can be compiled by Visual C++, gcc and comeau 2) It should be small enough. The picture won't be complete without GRETA library: "The GRETA Regular Expression Template Archive" http://research.microsoft.com/projects/greta/ It's comparatively small - only six files. Also, its performance is good. Here's performance comparison: "Regular Expression Performance Comparison" http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/boost/boost/libs/regex /doc/vc71-performance.html HTH Alex [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ] Back to top Ismail Pazarbasi Guest Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 8:10 am    Post subject: Re: RegEx cross-platform C++ library Yes, GRETA looks great, I have used it many times, but it doesn't compile on FreeBSD 4.x due to wchar stuff. Ismail [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ] Back to top Jonathan Turkanis Guest Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:35 am    Post subject: Re: RegEx cross-platform C++ library Alex Blekhman wrote: Quote: Vitaly Repin wrote: Hello! I am looking for some regular expressions library which should meet the following demands: 1) It can be compiled by Visual C++, gcc and comeau 2) It should be small enough. The picture won't be complete without GRETA library: "The GRETA Regular Expression Template Archive" http://research.microsoft.com/projects/greta/ The picture's still not complete ;-) http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/libs/xpressive/doc/html/index.html Jonathan [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ] Back to top Stephen Toledo-Brown Guest Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:25 pm    Post subject: Re: RegEx cross-platform C++ library Jonathan Turkanis wrote: Quote: Why does the size of Boost bother you? If the problem is that you don't want to have to include all of Boost in your source distribution, you can use the bcp tool to extract just the part of Boost you need: http://www.boost.org/tools/bcp/bcp.html. Thanks for that - at last (and at least) we have a tool which can tell us which licences we'll need to use a subset of Boost. Without that I could see no practical way of obtaining the lawyers' approval to use Boost at all. Is there a significant chance that there ever be a single licence for Boost? [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ] Back to top Alex Blekhman Guest Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 12:27 am    Post subject: Re: RegEx cross-platform C++ library Ismail Pazarbasi wrote: Quote: Yes, GRETA looks great, I have used it many times, but it doesn't compile on FreeBSD 4.x due to wchar stuff. IIRC, you can instantiate only ANSI part. Then wide char part will be omitted at all. Though I never tried it on anything but Windows. -- Alex tkfx [at] yahoo dot com [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ] Back to top pillbug Guest Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:34 pm    Post subject: Re: RegEx cross-platform C++ library Quote: "The GRETA Regular Expression Template Archive" http://research.microsoft.com/projects/greta/ this was in the license.txt file accompanying the greta download: "...you may install one copy of the Software on your personal computer and use such copy at no charge for your non-commercial research or non-commercial teaching purposes, only in an academic or other noncommercial research setting..." sort of limiting. [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ] Back to top Eric Niebler Guest Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:45 am    Post subject: Re: RegEx cross-platform C++ library pillbug wrote: Quote: "The GRETA Regular Expression Template Archive" http://research.microsoft.com/projects/greta/ this was in the license.txt file accompanying the greta download: "...you may install one copy of the Software on your personal computer and use such copy at no charge for your non-commercial research or non-commercial teaching purposes, only in an academic or other noncommercial research setting..." sort of limiting. If you get GRETA from gotdotnet.com, it's free for commercial use. Same code, different license. Dumb, I know. See VC++ PowerTools at: http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/cplusplus/ <shameless plug> My new regex library, xpressive, is totally free. xpressive.zip, http://boost-sandbox.sf.net/vault/index.php?directory=eric_niebler& </shameless plug> -- Eric Niebler Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. 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