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+/*
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 1998-2009
+ * John Maddock
+ *
+ * Use, modification and distribution are subject to the 
+ * Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file 
+ * LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
+ *
+ */
+
+ /*
+  *   LOCATION:    see http://www.boost.org for most recent version.
+  *   FILE         regex_format.hpp
+  *   VERSION      see <ndnboost/version.hpp>
+  *   DESCRIPTION: Provides formatting output routines for search and replace
+  *                operations.  Note this is an internal header file included
+  *                by regex.hpp, do not include on its own.
+  */
+
+#ifndef NDNBOOST_REGEX_V4_REGEX_REPLACE_HPP
+#define NDNBOOST_REGEX_V4_REGEX_REPLACE_HPP
+
+
+namespace ndnboost{
+
+#ifdef NDNBOOST_MSVC
+#pragma warning(push)
+#pragma warning(disable: 4103)
+#endif
+#ifdef NDNBOOST_HAS_ABI_HEADERS
+#  include NDNBOOST_ABI_PREFIX
+#endif
+#ifdef NDNBOOST_MSVC
+#pragma warning(pop)
+#endif
+
+template <class OutputIterator, class BidirectionalIterator, class traits, class charT, class Formatter>
+OutputIterator regex_replace(OutputIterator out,
+                         BidirectionalIterator first,
+                         BidirectionalIterator last,
+                         const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, 
+                         Formatter fmt, 
+                         match_flag_type flags = match_default)
+{
+   regex_iterator<BidirectionalIterator, charT, traits> i(first, last, e, flags);
+   regex_iterator<BidirectionalIterator, charT, traits> j;
+   if(i == j)
+   {
+      if(!(flags & regex_constants::format_no_copy))
+         out = re_detail::copy(first, last, out);
+   }
+   else
+   {
+      BidirectionalIterator last_m(first);
+      while(i != j)
+      {
+         if(!(flags & regex_constants::format_no_copy))
+            out = re_detail::copy(i->prefix().first, i->prefix().second, out); 
+         out = i->format(out, fmt, flags, e);
+         last_m = (*i)[0].second;
+         if(flags & regex_constants::format_first_only)
+            break;
+         ++i;
+      }
+      if(!(flags & regex_constants::format_no_copy))
+         out = re_detail::copy(last_m, last, out);
+   }
+   return out;
+}
+
+template <class traits, class charT, class Formatter>
+std::basic_string<charT> regex_replace(const std::basic_string<charT>& s,
+                         const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, 
+                         Formatter fmt,
+                         match_flag_type flags = match_default)
+{
+   std::basic_string<charT> result;
+   re_detail::string_out_iterator<std::basic_string<charT> > i(result);
+   regex_replace(i, s.begin(), s.end(), e, fmt, flags);
+   return result;
+}
+
+#ifdef NDNBOOST_MSVC
+#pragma warning(push)
+#pragma warning(disable: 4103)
+#endif
+#ifdef NDNBOOST_HAS_ABI_HEADERS
+#  include NDNBOOST_ABI_SUFFIX
+#endif
+#ifdef NDNBOOST_MSVC
+#pragma warning(pop)
+#endif
+
+} // namespace ndnboost
+
+#endif  // NDNBOOST_REGEX_V4_REGEX_REPLACE_HPP
+
+