Originally Posted by
indigo0086
Regular Expressions don't look at specific formats, they allow you to look for patterns in text (allowing you to delimit a string by characters, length, words, or anything you can think of.) If you have strings to break up if you know the specific length, then you probably won't need to, you can just capture a certain amount of characters from a stream and place that as a symbol in your program. But as opposed to programatically doing it in C++, boost regular expressions allow you to do it nearly all at once. significantly reducing code length, and impressing your new bosses.