[ARROW-2224] [C++] Get rid of boost regex usage

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.10.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/18188
• Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
• Reporter: Phillip Cloud
• Created: 26/Feb/18 23:33
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:19
• Resolved: 11/Apr/18 15:54

Description

We're using boost::regex to parse decimal strings for decimal128 types. We should use libre2 instead.

Issue Links

• supercedes: ARROW-2193 [Plasma] plasma_store has runtime dependency on Boost shared libraries when ARROW_BOOST_USE_SHARED=on
• supercedes: ARROW-2247 [Python] Statically-linking boost_regex in both libarrow and libparquet results in segfault
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1880