Re: [Boost-users] Problem with regular expression's validity and matching

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Problem with regular expression's validity and matching
From: Paulino De Assis Fong (fongph_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-23 22:12:06

>std::wstring 
>csRegex(L"((\(\d{3}\)?)|(\d{3}))([\s-./]?)(\d{3})([\s-./]?)(\d{4})")

Hi Steve,

I didn't hardcode the value like the example you pointed out. I read the value 
from a CDATA section in an xml document so the value should be probably 
escaped and stored in csRegex, which is a CString. Thanks

Steven Watanabe <watanabesj <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> How do you create the regex?
> 
> std::wstring 
> csRegex(L"((\(\d{3}\)?)|(\d{3}))([\s-./]?)(\d{3})([\s-./]?)(\d{4})")
> 
> won't work because the \'s are handled by the compiler before
> they get to the regex library.
> 
> In Christ,
> Steven Watanabe
>