C regex equiv to Python implementation?

[techiepundit at futurepundit.com]

Ganesan,

I'm trying to stay portable between Windows and Linux. My app will run
on Linux when deployed. But we do a lot of simulation on Windows
because of better dev tools available on Windows.

So I really want a regular expression implementation that'll compile
under MS VS 2003 C++ and also under Gnu C++ for Linux on both x86 and
ARM targets.