Re: [boost] Re: Re: Newbie to Regex simple test failure...

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-21 05:17:06

> Many thanks for the information you have provided. I am looking to use
> wildcards for my program, but not just for file matching.  To overcome
this
> I will write a wrapper function to convert * in to .*, but that should not
> be too difficult.  Then I guess it's a case of RTFM for the rest.  To
solve
> your problem of wildcarding, may I suggest that you use Unix over DOS or
> perhaps create a couple of flags to incorprate either.

Yep, in case it helps, here's a regular expression and format string I've
used in the past to convert a DOS-style wildcard to a Perl regex:

static const boost::regex
transformer("([+{}()\\[\\]$\\^|])|(\\*)|(\\?)|(\\.)|([\\\\/:])");

static const char* replace_string =
"(?1\\\\$1)(?2[^\\\\\\\\/\\:]*)(?3[^\\\\\\\\/\\:])(?4\\(\\?\\:\\\\.|$\\))(?5
[\\\\\\\\\\\\/\\:])";

> I have noticed somthing else however with the current build.  I'm getting
> C4786 warnings all over the place when I compile.  I have tried putting
> #pragma warning(disable : 4786) at the start of my program, but this
appears
> to have no effect.  I wonder if it's something to do with the library.
> Remember I'm ising mscv6.

Well if you insist on using a broken compiler that's what you'll have to
expect, I've tried really hard to suppress those warnings myself, but they
never seem to stay turned off :-(

In short use VC7.1 instead...

John.