Re: [Boost-build] boost::regex_search url/uri match help

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] boost::regex_search url/uri match help
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-31 04:42:11

> I have the following regular expression for matching a URI/URL(works
> fine with PCRE, note I have escaped ++ to work with boost::regex but
> otherwise unchanged):

What regex did you use with pcre?  They should behave exactly the same, did 
you mean to use

"[something]+\\+"

ie "something" is repeated and then followed by a literal "+"? Rather than:

"[something]\\+\\+"

which matches a literal "something++" which doesn't I think occur in a URL?

John.