RE: [Boost-users] Regex++ multiline matching

From: Ben Hutchings (ben.hutchings_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-14 08:12:28

John Maddock <john_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > I see that Regex++ always treats ^ and $ as start and end of line
> > rather than start and end of buffer.  Perl does this only if the /m
> > switch is used.  Is there a simple way to switch between these two
> > interpretations when compiling a regex?
> 
> No but you can use \A and \z for that purpose.

I know that, but I want to be able to interpret user-supplied regexes
either way.  Maybe I can pre-process them to substitute ^ and $, but
that seems awkward.