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

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-14 04:55:06

John Maddock wrote:
> 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!

Never mind, I see the problem, fixed in SVN, John.