The C++ Standard Library Extensions A Tutorial and Reference

Chapter 20. Formatting and Text Replacement

Give this much to the Luftwaffe. When it knocked down our buildings, it didn’t replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

Speech in London, December 1987CHARLES PHILIP ARTHUR GEORGE,PRINCE OF WALES

Suppose that you’ve been assigned to write a program that will send personalized e-mail to a list of pet owners whose names and e-mail addresses are stored in a file of comma-separated fields, one line per person. The fields in each line are, in order, the person’s e-mail address, first name, last name, pet’s name, and the kind of animal it is.^[1] Since you read Chapter 19, you know how to write a regular expression to extract fields from a comma-separated list. Now you need to extract ...