[Boost-users] Re: regex_replace not found

From: Scott Field (sfield_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-15 04:36:17

John Maddock wrote:
>>I installed boost_1_31_0 on Red Hat Fedora  Core 1 with no apparent
> 
> errors.
> 
>>I can compile and run the examples in
>>/usr/local/src/boost_1_31_0/libs/date_time/example and I have compiled
>>and run some graph examples so I think it is installed OK.
>>However when I compile
>>
> 
> /usr/local/src/boost_1_31_0/libs/regex/example/snippets/credit_card_example.
> cpp
> 
>>(or anything that uses regex_replace) I get the following error:
>>
>>[root_at_athlon snippets]# g++ credit_card_example.cpp
>>credit_card_example.cpp: In function `std::string
>>   machine_readable_card_number(const std::string&)':
>>credit_card_example.cpp:35: error: `regex_replace' undeclared in namespace
> 
> `
> 
>>   boost'
>>credit_card_example.cpp: In function `std::string
>>   human_readable_card_number(const std::string&)':
>>credit_card_example.cpp:40: error: `regex_replace' undeclared in namespace
> 
> `
> 
>>   boost'
> 
> 
> My suspicion is that you have an older version on your hard drive whose
> headers are being picked up rather than those 1.31.0, try pre-processing the
> source, and filtering the result through less, you should then be able to
> work out what's going wrong,
> 
> John.

John,
You were right. Fedora had already installed boost_1_30.
I uninstalled the Fedora boost RPM's and reinstalled from the later tar 
ball version off boost.org and it all worked great.
Many thanks
Scott.