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C and C++ regular expressions are text strings formed in a particular syntax that is used in the C or C++ programming languages for searching text patterns within text.

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• Boost.Regex

  http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/libs/regex/doc/html/index.html
  Documentation for a C++ regex library. Includes html and PDF format.

• Grammar to Parser Classes

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/grammar2parser/
  Template classes for declaring grammars as set of compound classes. Download link.

• GRETA

  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52473
  Perl-compliant regex template library. Includes download link.

• Henry Spencer's Regular Expression Libraries

  http://www.arglist.com/regex/
  Collected information about Spencer's libraries. Features three main library flavors, source code, installation notes.

• PCRE for Windows

  http://www.psyon.org/projects/pcre-win32/
  Pre-compiled version of the PCRE library. Includes download links for several PCRE versions.

• PCRE.org

  http://www.pcre.org/
  Perl-compatible regular expressions library used in projects such as PHP. Includes download, documentation and contact information.

• RE2

  https://github.com/google/re2
  C++ library for regex engine that runs searches in time linear to input size, in contrast to backtracking engines which can take exponential time. Includes description, source and syntax.

• RegExplorer

  http://regexplorer.sourceforge.net/index.html
  Regex tester. Includes source download, screenshots and change log.

• Regular Expressions in C++

  http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/regular-expressions-in-c/184404797
  Article about the regex++ engine. Discusses validating, searching, replacing.

• TRE

  http://laurikari.net/tre/
  POSIX-compliant regex library that supports fuzzy matching. Includes FAQ, documentation and download.

• Xpressive

  http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_58_0/doc/html/xpressive.html
  Regex template library. Allows either run-time or compile-time parsing, and allows expressions to refer to one another.

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