Re: [boost] [regex] unknown escape sequence inlibs/regex/test/regress/test_perl_ex.cpp

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-14 04:33:38

Boris Gubenko wrote:
>  regex library tests regex_regress[_threaded] fail to compile on
>  gcc-4.2.1_hpux_ia64 because for a character string
> 
>        "(?<=*|\B)"
> 
>  gcc 4.2.1 emits a hard error "unknown escape sequence". gcc 3.4
>  series issues a warning, as well as EDG-based compilers. See
> reproducer below. 
> 
>  The character string in question should, probably, be: "(?<=*|\\B)".
> 
>  Ok to change?

Yes please!

Thanks, John.