Fw: Boost regex -- how to search for (?

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-01-06 11:26:40

This appeared on c.l.c++.moderated.
Perhaps someone here can help?
-Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thaddeus L Olczyk" <olczyk_at_[hidden]>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++.moderated,comp.lang.c++
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 8:16 PM
Subject: Boost regex -- how to search for (?

> I'm stuck in a very serious problem ( which I will condense here )
> concerning the regex library in boost ( come to think of it
> any regex library in any language, but I think they handle these
> things differently ).
> I am trying to match an expression ( this is simplified ) that looks
> like:
> 
> a word ( another word )
> 
> which I think as a regex looks like:
> [a-zA-z]+\([a-zA-Z]+\)
> or
> [a-zA-z]+\\([a-zA-Z]+\\)
> 
> anyway, I'm not quite sure how to handle the (.
> Can anyone help?
> TIA
> 
> 
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