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Re:A meta-analysis of C++ projects by smitherfield on Thursday April 05, 2018 @11:19AM (#16765687)
Allegedly, the quality of STL <regex> implementations leaves much to be desired.
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Re:A meta-analysis of C++ projects by alexhutcheson on Thursday April 05, 2018 @11:32AM (#16765806)
I default to using RE2[1] in most cases. If I really need backtracking, I would probably just use PCRE through the C++ wrapper[2], but that hasn't been a common need in my experience.

[1] https://github.com/google/re2/

[2] https://www.pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcrecpp.html

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