[boost] Re: Re: [Regex patch] compiling on Mac OSX with gcc 2.95

From: Angus Leeming (angus.leeming_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-10 08:42:05

John Maddock wrote:
> There are two errors in your code:
> 
> 1) you should check the return value of regex_match to see if there
> is some kind of match before checking what[0].matched to see if it
> was partial or not.
> 2) The second match fails because you called regex_match and the
> expression
> cannot match *all* of the text.  If you want to match *some* of the
> text
> then use regex_search.  The match_partial flag will only come into
> play if all of the text is matched, but not all of the expression.

Bingo! Many thanks.
Angus