Re: [boost] Regex problem with whitespace

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-31 14:35:58

At 06:53 AM 12/31/2003, John Maddock wrote:

 >> When I rebuild the inspect program yesterday (using VC++ 7.1), it 
started
 >> to incorrectly report some files as unlinked even though they really 
are
 >> linked.
 >>
 >> Here is an example of one of the missed links:
 >>
 >>      <td><a href=
 >> 
"../tools/build/v1/borland-tools.html"><code>borland</code></a></td>
 >>
 >> A dump of the file shows the line endings are cr/nl.
 >>
 >> The regex that used to find this OK is:
 >>
 >>    boost::regex url_regex(
 >>      "<\\s*"
 >>      "(?:A\\s+[^>]*HREF|FRAME\\s+SRC)" // A HREF or FRAME SRC
 >>      "\\s*=\\s*\"([^\"]*)\"",
 >>      boost::regbase::normal | boost::regbase::icase);
 >>
 >> Any ideas?
 >
 >There haven't been any regex changes that would affect that in a long
 >while, and as the test program below demonstrates it does find the
 >match you expect in this case, so the error must be somewhere else,

Duh! I should have tested further before bothering you. The problem was 
actually the change in the filesystem library that now requires paths to be 
explicitly normalized. Regex was working fine.

--Beman