glibmm: Glib::Regex Class Reference

Perl-compatible regular expressions - matches strings against regular expressions. More...

#include <glibmm/regex.h>

Public Member Functions
void	reference () const
	Increment the reference count for this object. More...

void	unreference () const
	Decrement the reference count for this object. More...

GRegex*	gobj ()
	Provides access to the underlying C instance. More...

const GRegex*	gobj () const
	Provides access to the underlying C instance. More...

GRegex*	gobj_copy () const
	Provides access to the underlying C instance. The caller is responsible for unrefing it. Use when directly setting fields in structs. More...

	Regex ()=delete

	Regex (const Regex&)=delete

Regex&	operator= (const Regex&)=delete

Glib::ustring	get_pattern () const
	Gets the pattern string associated with regex, i.e. a copy of the string passed to g_regex_new(). More...

int	get_max_backref () const
	Returns the number of the highest back reference in the pattern, or 0 if the pattern does not contain back references. More...

int	get_capture_count () const
	Returns the number of capturing subpatterns in the pattern. More...

bool	get_has_cr_or_lf () const
	Checks whether the pattern contains explicit CR or LF references. More...

int	get_max_lookbehind () const
	Gets the number of characters in the longest lookbehind assertion in the pattern. More...

int	get_string_number (const Glib::ustring& name) const
	Retrieves the number of the subexpression named name. More...

RegexCompileFlags	get_compile_flags () const
	Returns the compile options that regex was created with. More...

RegexMatchFlags	get_match_flags () const
	Returns the match options that regex was created with. More...

bool	match (const Glib::ustring&string, Glib::MatchInfo& match_info, RegexMatchFlags match_options=static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0))
	Scans for a match in string for the pattern in regex. More...

bool	match (const Glib::ustring&string, RegexMatchFlags match_options=static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0))
	A match() method not requiring a Glib::MatchInfo. More...

bool	match (const Glib::ustring&string, int start_position, Glib::MatchInfo& match_info, RegexMatchFlags match_options=static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0))
	A match() method with a start position and a Glib::MatchInfo. More...

bool	match (const Glib::ustring&string, gssize string_len, int start_position, Glib::MatchInfo& match_info, RegexMatchFlags match_options=static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0))
	Scans for a match in string for the pattern in regex. More...

bool	match (const Glib::ustring&string, int start_position, RegexMatchFlags match_options)
	A match() method with a start position not requiring a Glib::MatchInfo. More...

bool	match (const Glib::ustring&string, gssize string_len, int start_position, RegexMatchFlags match_options)
	A match() method with a string length and start position not requiring a Glib::MatchInfo. More...

bool	match_all (const Glib::ustring&string, Glib::MatchInfo& match_info, RegexMatchFlags match_options=static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0))
	Using the standard algorithm for regular expression matching only the longest match in the string is retrieved. More...

bool	match_all (const Glib::ustring&string, RegexMatchFlags match_options=static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0))
	A match_all() method not requiring a Glib::MatchInfo. More...

bool	match_all (const Glib::ustring&string, int start_position, Glib::MatchInfo& match_info, RegexMatchFlags match_options=static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0))
	A match_all() method with a start positon and a Glib::MatchInfo. More...

bool	match_all (const Glib::ustring&string, gssize string_len, int start_position, Glib::MatchInfo& match_info, RegexMatchFlags match_options=static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0))
	Using the standard algorithm for regular expression matching only the longest match in the string is retrieved, it is not possible to obtain all the available matches. More...

bool	match_all (const Glib::ustring&string, int start_position, RegexMatchFlags match_options)
	A match_all() method with a start position not requiring a Glib::MatchInfo. More...

bool	match_all (const Glib::ustring&string, gssize string_len, int start_position, RegexMatchFlags match_options)
	A match_all() method with a start position and a string length not requiring a Glib::MatchInfo. More...

Glib::StringArrayHandle	split (const Glib::ustring&string, RegexMatchFlags match_options=static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0))
	Breaks the string on the pattern, and returns an array of the tokens. More...

Glib::StringArrayHandle	split (const gchar*string, gssize string_len, int start_position, RegexMatchFlags match_options=static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0), int max_tokens=0) const
	Breaks the string on the pattern, and returns an array of the tokens. More...

Glib::StringArrayHandle	split (const Glib::ustring&string, int start_position, RegexMatchFlags match_options, int max_tokens) const

Glib::ustring	replace (const gchar*string, gssize string_len, int start_position, const Glib::ustring& replacement, RegexMatchFlags match_options=static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0))
	Replaces all occurrences of the pattern in regex with the replacement text. More...

Glib::ustring	replace (const Glib::ustring&string, int start_position, const Glib::ustring& replacement, RegexMatchFlags match_options)

Glib::ustring	replace_literal (const gchar*string, gssize string_len, int start_position, const Glib::ustring& replacement, RegexMatchFlags match_options=static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0))
	Replaces all occurrences of the pattern in regex with the replacement text. More...

Glib::ustring	replace_literal (const Glib::ustring&string, int start_position, const Glib::ustring& replacement, RegexMatchFlags match_options)

Glib::ustring	replace_eval (const Glib::ustring&string, gssize string_len, int start_position, RegexMatchFlags match_options, GRegexEvalCallback eval, gpointer user_data)
	Replaces occurrences of the pattern in regex with the output of eval for that occurrence. More...

Static Public Member Functions
static Glib::RefPtr< Glib::Regex >	create (const Glib::ustring& pattern, RegexCompileFlags compile_options=static_cast< RegexCompileFlags >(0), RegexMatchFlags match_options=static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0))

static Glib::ustring	escape_string (const Glib::ustring&string)

static bool	match_simple (const Glib::ustring& pattern, const Glib::ustring&string, RegexCompileFlags compile_options=static_cast< RegexCompileFlags >(0), RegexMatchFlags match_options=static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0))
	Scans for a match in string for pattern. More...

static Glib::StringArrayHandle	split_simple (const Glib::ustring& pattern, const Glib::ustring&string, RegexCompileFlags compile_options=static_cast< RegexCompileFlags >(0), RegexMatchFlags match_options=static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0))
	Breaks the string on the pattern, and returns an array of the tokens. More...

static bool	check_replacement (const Glib::ustring& replacement, gboolean* has_references)
	Checks whether replacement is a valid replacement string (see g_regex_replace()), i.e. that all escape sequences in it are valid. More...

Protected Member Functions
void	operator delete (void*, std::size_t)

Related Functions
(Note that these are not member functions.)
Glib::RefPtr< Glib::Regex >	wrap (GRegex* object, bool take_copy=false)
	A Glib::wrap() method for this object. More...

Detailed Description

Perl-compatible regular expressions - matches strings against regular expressions.

The Glib::Regex functions implement regular expression pattern matching using syntax and semantics similar to Perl regular expression.

Some functions accept a start_position argument, setting it differs from just passing over a shortened string and setting REGEX_MATCH_NOTBOL in the case of a pattern that begins with any kind of lookbehind assertion. For example, consider the pattern "\Biss\B" which finds occurrences of "iss" in the middle of words. ("\B" matches only if the current position in the subject is not a word boundary.) When applied to the string "Mississipi" from the fourth byte, namely "issipi", it does not match, because "\B" is always false at the start of the subject, which is deemed to be a word boundary. However, if the entire string is passed , but with start_position set to 4, it finds the second occurrence of "iss" because it is able to look behind the starting point to discover that it is preceded by a letter.

Note that, unless you set the REGEX_RAW flag, all the strings passed to these functions must be encoded in UTF-8. The lengths and the positions inside the strings are in bytes and not in characters, so, for instance, "\xc3\xa0" (i.e. "à") is two bytes long but it is treated as a single character. If you set REGEX_RAW the strings can be non-valid UTF-8 strings and a byte is treated as a character, so "\xc3\xa0" is two bytes and two characters long.

When matching a pattern, "\n" matches only against a "\n" character in the string, and "\r" matches only a "\r" character. To match any newline sequence use "\R". This particular group matches either the two-character sequence CR + LF ("\r\n"), or one of the single characters LF (linefeed, U+000A, "\n"), VT (vertical tab, U+000B, "\v"), FF (formfeed, U+000C, "\f"), CR (carriage return, U+000D, "\r"), NEL (next line, U+0085), LS (line separator, U+2028), or PS (paragraph separator, U+2029).

The behaviour of the dot, circumflex, and dollar metacharacters are affected by newline characters, the default is to recognize any newline character (the same characters recognized by "\R"). This can be changed with REGEX_NEWLINE_CR, REGEX_NEWLINE_LF and REGEX_NEWLINE_CRLF compile options, and with REGEX_MATCH_NEWLINE_ANY, REGEX_MATCH_NEWLINE_CR, REGEX_MATCH_NEWLINE_LF and REGEX_MATCH_NEWLINE_CRLF match options. These settings are also relevant when compiling a pattern if REGEX_EXTENDED is set, and an unescaped "#" outside a character class is encountered. This indicates a comment that lasts until after the next newline.

Creating and manipulating the same Glib::Regex class from different threads is not a problem as Glib::Regex does not modify its internal state between creation and destruction, on the other hand Glib::MatchInfo is not threadsafe.

The regular expressions low level functionalities are obtained through the excellent PCRE library written by Philip Hazel.

Since glibmm 2.14:

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Glib::Regex::Regex ( )

delete

Glib::Regex::Regex ( const Regex& )

delete

Member Function Documentation

static bool Glib::Regex::check_replacement	(	const Glib::ustring&	replacement,
		gboolean *	has_references
	)

static

Checks whether replacement is a valid replacement string (see g_regex_replace()), i.e. that all escape sequences in it are valid.

If has_references is not nullptr then replacement is checked for pattern references. For instance, replacement text 'foo\n' does not contain references and may be evaluated without information about actual match, but '\0\1' (whole match followed by first subpattern) requires valid MatchInfo object.

Since glibmm 2.14:

Parameters

replacement	The replacement string.
has_references	Location to store information about references in replacement or `nullptr`.

Returns: Whether replacement is a valid replacement string.

static Glib::RefPtr<Glib::Regex> Glib::Regex::create	(	const Glib::ustring&	pattern,
		RegexCompileFlags	compile_options = `static_cast< RegexCompileFlags >(0)`,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options = `static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0)`
	)

static

static Glib::ustring Glib::Regex::escape_string ( const Glib::ustring& string )

static

int Glib::Regex::get_capture_count ( ) const

Returns the number of capturing subpatterns in the pattern.

Since glibmm 2.14:

Returns: The number of capturing subpatterns.

RegexCompileFlags Glib::Regex::get_compile_flags ( ) const

Returns the compile options that regex was created with.

Since glibmm 2.26:

Returns: Flags from RegexCompileFlags.

bool Glib::Regex::get_has_cr_or_lf ( ) const

Checks whether the pattern contains explicit CR or LF references.

Since glibmm 2.34:

Returns: true if the pattern contains explicit CR or LF references.

RegexMatchFlags Glib::Regex::get_match_flags ( ) const

Returns the match options that regex was created with.

Since glibmm 2.26:

Returns: Flags from RegexMatchFlags.

int Glib::Regex::get_max_backref ( ) const

Returns the number of the highest back reference in the pattern, or 0 if the pattern does not contain back references.

Since glibmm 2.14:

Returns: The number of the highest back reference.

int Glib::Regex::get_max_lookbehind ( ) const

Gets the number of characters in the longest lookbehind assertion in the pattern.

This information is useful when doing multi-segment matching using the partial matching facilities.

Since glibmm 2.38:

Returns: The number of characters in the longest lookbehind assertion.

Glib::ustring Glib::Regex::get_pattern ( ) const

Gets the pattern string associated with regex, i.e. a copy of the string passed to g_regex_new().

Since glibmm 2.14:

Returns: The pattern of regex.

int Glib::Regex::get_string_number ( const Glib::ustring& name ) const

Retrieves the number of the subexpression named name.

Since glibmm 2.14:

Parameters

name	Name of the subexpression.

Returns: The number of the subexpression or -1 if name does not exists.

GRegex* Glib::Regex::gobj ( )

Provides access to the underlying C instance.

const GRegex* Glib::Regex::gobj ( ) const

Provides access to the underlying C instance.

GRegex* Glib::Regex::gobj_copy ( ) const

Provides access to the underlying C instance. The caller is responsible for unrefing it. Use when directly setting fields in structs.

bool Glib::Regex::match	(	const Glib::ustring&	string,
		Glib::MatchInfo&	match_info,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options = `static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0)`
	)

Scans for a match in string for the pattern in regex.

The match_options are combined with the match options specified when the regex structure was created, letting you have more flexibility in reusing Regex structures.

A MatchInfo structure, used to get information on the match, is stored in match_info if not nullptr. Note that if match_info is not nullptr then it is created even if the function returns false, i.e. you must free it regardless if regular expression actually matched.

To retrieve all the non-overlapping matches of the pattern in string you can use g_match_info_next().

[C example ellipted]

string is not copied and is used in MatchInfo internally. If you use any MatchInfo method (except g_match_info_free()) after freeing or modifying string then the behaviour is undefined.

Since glibmm 2.14:

Parameters

string	The string to scan for matches.
match_options	Match options.
match_info	Pointer to location where to store the MatchInfo, or `nullptr` if you do not need it.

Returns: true is the string matched, false otherwise.

bool Glib::Regex::match	(	const Glib::ustring&	string,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options = `static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0)`
	)

A match() method not requiring a Glib::MatchInfo.

bool Glib::Regex::match	(	const Glib::ustring&	string,
		int	start_position,
		Glib::MatchInfo&	match_info,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options = `static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0)`
	)

A match() method with a start position and a Glib::MatchInfo.

bool Glib::Regex::match	(	const Glib::ustring&	string,
		gssize	string_len,
		int	start_position,
		Glib::MatchInfo&	match_info,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options = `static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0)`
	)

Scans for a match in string for the pattern in regex.

The match_options are combined with the match options specified when the regex structure was created, letting you have more flexibility in reusing Regex structures.

Setting start_position differs from just passing over a shortened string and setting REGEX_MATCH_NOTBOL in the case of a pattern that begins with any kind of lookbehind assertion, such as "\\b".

string is not copied and is used in MatchInfo internally. If you use any MatchInfo method (except g_match_info_free()) after freeing or modifying string then the behaviour is undefined.

To retrieve all the non-overlapping matches of the pattern in string you can use g_match_info_next().

[C example ellipted]

Since glibmm 2.14:

Parameters

string	The string to scan for matches.
string_len	The length of string, or -1 if string is nul-terminated.
start_position	Starting index of the string to match, in bytes.
match_options	Match options.
match_info	Pointer to location where to store the MatchInfo, or `nullptr` if you do not need it.

Returns: true is the string matched, false otherwise.

bool Glib::Regex::match	(	const Glib::ustring&	string,
		int	start_position,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options
	)

A match() method with a start position not requiring a Glib::MatchInfo.

bool Glib::Regex::match	(	const Glib::ustring&	string,
		gssize	string_len,
		int	start_position,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options
	)

A match() method with a string length and start position not requiring a Glib::MatchInfo.

bool Glib::Regex::match_all	(	const Glib::ustring&	string,
		Glib::MatchInfo&	match_info,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options = `static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0)`
	)

Using the standard algorithm for regular expression matching only the longest match in the string is retrieved.

This function uses a different algorithm so it can retrieve all the possible matches. For more documentation see g_regex_match_all_full().

string is not copied and is used in MatchInfo internally. If you use any MatchInfo method (except g_match_info_free()) after freeing or modifying string then the behaviour is undefined.

Since glibmm 2.14:

Parameters

string	The string to scan for matches.
match_options	Match options.
match_info	Pointer to location where to store the MatchInfo, or `nullptr` if you do not need it.

Returns: true is the string matched, false otherwise.

bool Glib::Regex::match_all	(	const Glib::ustring&	string,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options = `static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0)`
	)

A match_all() method not requiring a Glib::MatchInfo.

bool Glib::Regex::match_all	(	const Glib::ustring&	string,
		int	start_position,
		Glib::MatchInfo&	match_info,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options = `static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0)`
	)

A match_all() method with a start positon and a Glib::MatchInfo.

bool Glib::Regex::match_all	(	const Glib::ustring&	string,
		gssize	string_len,
		int	start_position,
		Glib::MatchInfo&	match_info,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options = `static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0)`
	)

Using the standard algorithm for regular expression matching only the longest match in the string is retrieved, it is not possible to obtain all the available matches.

For instance matching "<a> <c>" against the pattern "<.*>" you get "<a> <c>".

This function uses a different algorithm (called DFA, i.e. deterministic finite automaton), so it can retrieve all the possible matches, all starting at the same point in the string. For instance matching "<a> <c>" against the pattern "<.*>;" you would obtain three matches: "<a> <c>", "<a> " and "<a>".

The number of matched strings is retrieved using g_match_info_get_match_count(). To obtain the matched strings and their position you can use, respectively, g_match_info_fetch() and g_match_info_fetch_pos(). Note that the strings are returned in reverse order of length; that is, the longest matching string is given first.

Note that the DFA algorithm is slower than the standard one and it is not able to capture substrings, so backreferences do not work.

Setting start_position differs from just passing over a shortened string and setting REGEX_MATCH_NOTBOL in the case of a pattern that begins with any kind of lookbehind assertion, such as "\\b".

string is not copied and is used in MatchInfo internally. If you use any MatchInfo method (except g_match_info_free()) after freeing or modifying string then the behaviour is undefined.

Since glibmm 2.14:

Parameters

string	The string to scan for matches.
string_len	The length of string, or -1 if string is nul-terminated.
start_position	Starting index of the string to match, in bytes.
match_options	Match options.
match_info	Pointer to location where to store the MatchInfo, or `nullptr` if you do not need it.

Returns: true is the string matched, false otherwise.

Exceptions

Glib::Error.

bool Glib::Regex::match_all	(	const Glib::ustring&	string,
		int	start_position,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options
	)

A match_all() method with a start position not requiring a Glib::MatchInfo.

bool Glib::Regex::match_all	(	const Glib::ustring&	string,
		gssize	string_len,
		int	start_position,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options
	)

A match_all() method with a start position and a string length not requiring a Glib::MatchInfo.

static bool Glib::Regex::match_simple	(	const Glib::ustring&	pattern,
		const Glib::ustring&	string,
		RegexCompileFlags	compile_options = `static_cast< RegexCompileFlags >(0)`,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options = `static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0)`
	)

static

Scans for a match in string for pattern.

This function is equivalent to g_regex_match() but it does not require to compile the pattern with g_regex_new(), avoiding some lines of code when you need just to do a match without extracting substrings, capture counts, and so on.

If this function is to be called on the same pattern more than once, it's more efficient to compile the pattern once with g_regex_new() and then use g_regex_match().

Since glibmm 2.14:

Parameters

pattern	The regular expression.
string	The string to scan for matches.
compile_options	Compile options for the regular expression, or 0.
match_options	Match options, or 0.

Returns: true if the string matched, false otherwise.

void Glib::Regex::operator delete	(	void *	,
		std::size_t
	)

protected

Regex& Glib::Regex::operator= ( const Regex& )

delete

void Glib::Regex::reference ( ) const

Increment the reference count for this object.

You should never need to do this manually - use the object via a RefPtr instead.

Glib::ustring Glib::Regex::replace	(	const gchar *	string,
		gssize	string_len,
		int	start_position,
		const Glib::ustring&	replacement,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options = `static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0)`
	)

Replaces all occurrences of the pattern in regex with the replacement text.

Backreferences of the form '\number' or '\g<number>' in the replacement text are interpolated by the number-th captured subexpression of the match, '\g<name>' refers to the captured subexpression with the given name. '\0' refers to the complete match, but '\0' followed by a number is the octal representation of a character. To include a literal '\' in the replacement, write '\\'.

There are also escapes that changes the case of the following text:

\l: Convert to lower case the next character
\u: Convert to upper case the next character
\L: Convert to lower case till \E
\U: Convert to upper case till \E
\E: End case modification

If you do not need to use backreferences use g_regex_replace_literal().

The replacement string must be UTF-8 encoded even if REGEX_RAW was passed to g_regex_new(). If you want to use not UTF-8 encoded stings you can use g_regex_replace_literal().

Setting start_position differs from just passing over a shortened string and setting REGEX_MATCH_NOTBOL in the case of a pattern that begins with any kind of lookbehind assertion, such as "\\b".

Since glibmm 2.14:

Parameters

string	The string to perform matches against.
string_len	The length of string, or -1 if string is nul-terminated.
start_position	Starting index of the string to match, in bytes.
replacement	Text to replace each match with.
match_options	Options for the match.

Returns: A newly allocated string containing the replacements.

Glib::ustring Glib::Regex::replace	(	const Glib::ustring&	string,
		int	start_position,
		const Glib::ustring&	replacement,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options
	)

Glib::ustring Glib::Regex::replace_eval	(	const Glib::ustring&	string,
		gssize	string_len,
		int	start_position,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options,
		GRegexEvalCallback	eval,
		gpointer	user_data
	)

Replaces occurrences of the pattern in regex with the output of eval for that occurrence.

Setting start_position differs from just passing over a shortened string and setting REGEX_MATCH_NOTBOL in the case of a pattern that begins with any kind of lookbehind assertion, such as "\\b".

The following example uses g_regex_replace_eval() to replace multiple strings at once:

[C example ellipted]

Since glibmm 2.14:

Parameters

string	String to perform matches against.
string_len	The length of string, or -1 if string is nul-terminated.
start_position	Starting index of the string to match, in bytes.
match_options	Options for the match.
eval	A function to call for each match.
user_data	User data to pass to the function.

Returns: A newly allocated string containing the replacements.

Glib::ustring Glib::Regex::replace_literal	(	const gchar *	string,
		gssize	string_len,
		int	start_position,
		const Glib::ustring&	replacement,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options = `static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0)`
	)

Replaces all occurrences of the pattern in regex with the replacement text.

replacement is replaced literally, to include backreferences use g_regex_replace().

Setting start_position differs from just passing over a shortened string and setting REGEX_MATCH_NOTBOL in the case of a pattern that begins with any kind of lookbehind assertion, such as "\\b".

Since glibmm 2.14:

Parameters

string	The string to perform matches against.
string_len	The length of string, or -1 if string is nul-terminated.
start_position	Starting index of the string to match, in bytes.
replacement	Text to replace each match with.
match_options	Options for the match.

Returns: A newly allocated string containing the replacements.

Glib::ustring Glib::Regex::replace_literal	(	const Glib::ustring&	string,
		int	start_position,
		const Glib::ustring&	replacement,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options
	)

Glib::StringArrayHandle Glib::Regex::split	(	const Glib::ustring&	string,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options = `static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0)`
	)

Breaks the string on the pattern, and returns an array of the tokens.

If the pattern contains capturing parentheses, then the text for each of the substrings will also be returned. If the pattern does not match anywhere in the string, then the whole string is returned as the first token.

As a special case, the result of splitting the empty string "" is an empty vector, not a vector containing a single string. The reason for this special case is that being able to represent a empty vector is typically more useful than consistent handling of empty elements. If you do need to represent empty elements, you'll need to check for the empty string before calling this function.

A pattern that can match empty strings splits string into separate characters wherever it matches the empty string between characters. For example splitting "ab c" using as a separator "\\s*", you will get "a", "b" and "c".

Since glibmm 2.14:

Parameters

string	The string to split with the pattern.
match_options	Match time option flags.

Returns: A nullptr-terminated gchar ** array. Free it using g_strfreev().

Glib::StringArrayHandle Glib::Regex::split	(	const gchar *	string,
		gssize	string_len,
		int	start_position,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options = `static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0)`,
		int	max_tokens = `0`
	)		const

Breaks the string on the pattern, and returns an array of the tokens.

Setting start_position differs from just passing over a shortened string and setting REGEX_MATCH_NOTBOL in the case of a pattern that begins with any kind of lookbehind assertion, such as "\\b".

Since glibmm 2.14:

Parameters

string	The string to split with the pattern.
string_len	The length of string, or -1 if string is nul-terminated.
start_position	Starting index of the string to match, in bytes.
match_options	Match time option flags.
max_tokens	The maximum number of tokens to split string into. If this is less than 1, the string is split completely.

Returns: A nullptr-terminated gchar ** array. Free it using g_strfreev().

Glib::StringArrayHandle Glib::Regex::split	(	const Glib::ustring&	string,
		int	start_position,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options,
		int	max_tokens
	)		const

static Glib::StringArrayHandle Glib::Regex::split_simple	(	const Glib::ustring&	pattern,
		const Glib::ustring&	string,
		RegexCompileFlags	compile_options = `static_cast< RegexCompileFlags >(0)`,
		RegexMatchFlags	match_options = `static_cast< RegexMatchFlags >(0)`
	)

static

Breaks the string on the pattern, and returns an array of the tokens.

This function is equivalent to g_regex_split() but it does not require to compile the pattern with g_regex_new(), avoiding some lines of code when you need just to do a split without extracting substrings, capture counts, and so on.

If this function is to be called on the same pattern more than once, it's more efficient to compile the pattern once with g_regex_new() and then use g_regex_split().

Since glibmm 2.14:

Parameters

pattern	The regular expression.
string	The string to scan for matches.
compile_options	Compile options for the regular expression, or 0.
match_options	Match options, or 0.

Returns: A nullptr-terminated array of strings. Free it using g_strfreev().

void Glib::Regex::unreference ( ) const

Decrement the reference count for this object.

You should never need to do this manually - use the object via a RefPtr instead.

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Glib::RefPtr< Glib::Regex > wrap	(	GRegex *	object,
		bool	take_copy = `false`
	)

A Glib::wrap() method for this object.

Parameters

object	The C instance.
take_copy	False if the result should take ownership of the C instance. True if it should take a new copy or ref.

Returns: A C++ instance that wraps this C instance.

glibmm: Glib::Regex Class Reference

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