Re: [boost] [Regex] Word boundary pattern does not match

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-13 04:40:36

Teddy Brielle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use the boost v1.35 regex library on Windows XP.
>

> Have I done something wrong in my pattern or in my code (match
> flags,...) ?

I think this is a bug: currently \B only matches *within a word*, but I've 
checked what Perl does and that matches anything that isn't a word boundary, 
including those outside of a word.

There's an easy fix that I'm committing, but in the mean time you could use:

(?<=\W)\*(?=\W)

as an alternative.

HTH, John.