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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
   <head>
      <title>Boost.Regex: Sed-Style Format String Syntax</title>
      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
      <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../boost.css">
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      <P>
         <TABLE id="Table1" cellSpacing="1" cellPadding="1" width="100%" border="0">
            <TR>
               <td valign="top" width="300">
                  <h3><a href="../../../index.htm"><img height="86" width="277" alt="C++ Boost" src="../../../boost.png" border="0"></a></h3>
               </td>
               <TD width="353">
                  <H1 align="center">Boost.Regex</H1>
                  <H2 align="center">Sed-Style Format String Syntax</H2>
               </TD>
               <td width="50">
                  <h3><a href="index.html"><img height="45" width="43" alt="Boost.Regex Index" src="uarrow.gif" border="0"></a></h3>
               </td>
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         </TABLE>
      </P>
      <P>Sed-style format strings treat all characters as literals except:</P>
      <P>
         <TABLE id="Table2" cellSpacing="4" cellPadding="3" width="100%" border="0">
            <TR>
               <TD>&amp;</TD>
               <TD>The ampersand character is replaced in the output stream by the the whole of 
                  what matched the regular expression.&nbsp; Use \&amp; to output a literal 
                  '&amp;' character.</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR>
               <TD>\</TD>
               <TD>Specifies an escape sequence.</TD>
            </TR>
         </TABLE>
      </P>
      <P>
      <P>An escape character followed by any character <EM>x</EM>, outputs that 
         character unless <EM>x</EM> is one of the escape sequences shown below.</P>
      <P>
         <TABLE id="Table3" cellSpacing="4" cellPadding="1" width="100%" border="0">
            <TR>
               <TD><STRONG>Escape</STRONG></TD>
               <TD><STRONG>Meaning</STRONG></TD>
            </TR>
            <TR>
               <TD>\a</TD>
               <TD>Outputs the bell character: '\a'.</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR>
               <TD>\e</TD>
               <TD>Outputs the ANSI escape character (code point 27).</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR>
               <TD>\f</TD>
               <TD>Outputs a form feed character: '\f'</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR>
               <TD>\n</TD>
               <TD>Outputs a newline character: '\n'.</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR>
               <TD>\r</TD>
               <TD>Outputs a carriage return character: '\r'.</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR>
               <TD>\t</TD>
               <TD>Outputs a tab character: '\t'.</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR>
               <TD>\v</TD>
               <TD>Outputs a vertical tab character: '\v'.</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR>
               <TD>\xDD</TD>
               <TD>Outputs the character whose hexadecimal code point is 0xDD</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR>
               <TD>\x{DDDD}</TD>
               <TD>Outputs the character whose hexadecimal code point is 0xDDDDD</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR>
               <TD>\cX</TD>
               <TD>Outputs the ANSI escape sequence "escape-X".</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR>
               <TD>\D</TD>
               <TD>If <EM>D</EM> is a decimal digit in the range 1-9, then outputs the text that 
                  matched sub-expression <EM>D</EM>.</TD>
            </TR>
         </TABLE>
      </P>
      <P>
         <HR>
      </P>
      <P></P>
      <p>Revised 
         <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan --> 
         24 Nov 2004 
         <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="39359" --></p>
      <p><i> Copyright John Maddock&nbsp;2004</i></p>
      <P><I>Use, modification and distribution are subject to the Boost Software License, 
            Version 1.0. (See accompanying file <A href="../../../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</A>
            or copy at <A href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</A>)</I></P>
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