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34 changes: 34 additions & 0 deletions CPP11.md
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- [memory model](#memory-model)
- [std::async](#stdasync)
- [std::begin/end](#stdbeginend)
- [regular expressions](#regex)

## C++11 Language Features

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auto b = CountTwos(arr); // 1
```

### regular expressions
The <regex> library offers tools to handle regular expressions, supporting POSIX and other common syntaxes for regular expressions.

The std::regex class is initialized with a regular expression and handles parsing the regular expression.
std::regex_search() looks for a regex inside a given string, and std::regex_replace() replaces any instances of the regex inside the given string.
std::regex_iterator and std::regex_token_iterator allow iteration through matches and submatches (respectively) within the string.

The following example illustrates the use of regular expressions to identify an email address:

#include <iostream>
#include <regex>
#include <string>

int main() {

// Define a simple regex pattern for an email address
std::regex email_pattern(R"([a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,})");

// Input string to check
std::string email = "[email protected]";

// Check if the input string matches the pattern
if (std::regex_match(email, email_pattern)) {
std::cout << email << " is a valid email address." << std::endl;
} else {
std::cout << email << " is not a valid email address." << std::endl;
}

return 0;
}



## Acknowledgements
* [cppreference](http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp) - especially useful for finding examples and documentation of new library features.
* [C++ Rvalue References Explained](http://web.archive.org/web/20240324121501/http://thbecker.net/articles/rvalue_references/section_01.html) - a great introduction I used to understand rvalue references, perfect forwarding, and move semantics.
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