Re: [Boost-users] Regular Expression (vers. 1.34.1)

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Regular Expression (vers. 1.34.1)
From: Salvatore Benedetto (salvatore.benedetto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-05 10:31:09

On 5 May 2010 16:23, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> AMDG
>
> Salvatore Benedetto wrote:
>>
>> On 5 May 2010 16:10, Nat Goodspeed <nat_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This might (or might not) work better:
>>> "\\.\\/\\w+(\\.txt)"
>>>
>>
>> Indeed I was missing a backslash.
>>
>> The following worked as I expected.
>>
>> std::string expression("\.\/\\w+(\.txt)");
>>
>
> Actual not.  The first level of backslashes is
> processed by C++.  The regex library never sees
> them.  This pattern with match
> x/filename-txt, since . is a wild card.

Oh so it's just a case that it matches string "./File.txt".

So basically I have to double backslash everytime?

Thanks again,
S.