Re: [Boost-users] Getting Original Regular Expression Out From sregex (Boost Xpressive)

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Getting Original Regular Expression Out From sregex (Boost Xpressive)
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-20 23:13:02

On 1/21/2010 2:15 PM, Yan Cheng Cheok wrote:
> I have the following code.
>
> sregex rex = sregex::compile( "(\\w+) (\\w+)!" );
>
> How I can get "(\w+) (\w+)!" out from rex?

You can't. If that's important, you should use std::pair<sregex, 
std::string> and store both the regex and the string used to initialize it.

HTH,

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Eric Niebler
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