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  Copyright 2006-2007 John Maddock.
  Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
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[section:regex_format regex_format (Deprecated)]

The algorithm `regex_format` is deprecated; new code should use 
[match_results_format] instead.  Existing code will continue to compile, 
the following documentation is taken from the previous version of Boost.Regex and 
will not be further updated:

[h4 Algorithm regex_format]

   #include <boost/regex.hpp>

The algorithm `regex_format` takes the results of a match and creates a 
new string based upon a format string, `regex_format` can be used for 
search and replace operations:

   template <class OutputIterator, class iterator, class Allocator, class charT>
   OutputIterator regex_format(OutputIterator out,
                              const match_results<iterator, Allocator>& m,
                              const charT* fmt,
                              match_flag_type flags = 0);
   template <class OutputIterator, class iterator, class Allocator, class charT>
   OutputIterator regex_format(OutputIterator out,
                              const match_results<iterator, Allocator>& m,
                              const std::basic_string<charT>& fmt,
                              match_flag_type flags = 0);

The library also defines the following convenience variation of 
`regex_format`, which returns the result directly as a string, rather 
than outputting to an iterator.

[note This version may not be available, or may be available in a more limited 
form, depending upon your compilers capabilities]

   template <class iterator, class Allocator, class charT>
   std::basic_string<charT> regex_format
                                    (const match_results<iterator, Allocator>& m, 
                                    const charT* fmt,
                                    match_flag_type flags = 0);

   template <class iterator, class Allocator, class charT>
   std::basic_string<charT> regex_format
                                    (const match_results<iterator, Allocator>& m, 
                                    const std::basic_string<charT>& fmt,
                                    match_flag_type flags = 0);

Parameters to the main version of the function are passed as follows:

[table
[[Parameter][Description]]
[[`OutputIterator out`][An output iterator type, the output string is sent to this iterator. Typically this would be a std::ostream_iterator. 	 ]]
[[`const match_results<iterator, Allocator>& m`][An instance of [match_results] obtained from one of the matching algorithms above, and denoting what matched. 	 ]]
[[`const charT* fmt`][A format string that determines how the match is transformed into the new string. 	 ]]
[[`unsigned flags`][Optional flags which describe how the format string is to be interpreted. 	 ]]
]

Format flags are described under [match_flag_type].

The format string syntax (and available options) is described more fully 
under [link boost_regex.format format strings].

[endsect]

