Bug 17516 – std.regex doesn't recognize \e (for ANSI escape character), unlike boost.regex

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Comment #0 by timothee.cour2 — 2017-06-17T06:01:00Z

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_33_1/libs/regex/doc/format_boost_syntax.html \e Outputs the ANSI escape character (code point 27). \e is not recognize (and not in docs in https://dlang.org/phobos/std_regex.html#replaceFirst) \e is particularly useful to handle ansi termnial escape codes (eg color codes) in log files There are workarounds, but they're cumbersome

Comment #1 by ag0aep6g — 2017-06-17T12:36:28Z

Changing to 'enhancement' as compatibility with boost.regex is not a stated goal for std.regex.

Comment #2 by dmitry.olsh — 2017-08-24T10:26:11Z

Should be trivial to just use \x27 isn't it?

Comment #3 by robert.schadek — 2024-12-01T16:30:23Z

THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN MOVED TO GITHUB https://github.com/dlang/phobos/issues/10252 DO NOT COMMENT HERE ANYMORE, NOBODY WILL SEE IT, THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN MOVED TO GITHUB