Library 5. Regex
How Does the Regex Library Improve Your Programs?
• Brings support for regular expressions to C++
• Improves the robustness of input validation
Regular expressions are very often used in text processing. For example, there are a number of validation tasks that are suitable for regular expressions. Consider an application that requires the input to consist only of numbers. Another program might require a specific format, such as three digits, followed by a character, then two more digits. You could validate ZIP Codes, credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, or just about anything else; and using regular expressions to do the validation is straightforward. Another typical area where regular expressions excel are text substitutions—that ...
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