[ARROW-29] C++: Add re2 as optional 3rd-party toolchain dependency

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.4.0
• Component/s: C++
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15301
• Assignee: Max Risuhin
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 02/Mar/16 20:01
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:06
• Resolved: 12/May/17 00:13

Description

We will want to eventually add RE2 wrapper functions which yield Arrow data structures resulting from applying regular expressions to Arrow data representing strings (for example, to implement operations like split_all(String) -> List<String>)