Re: [Boost-users] [regex] invalid syntax for non-gready repeats

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-27 07:44:56

> this inocent code throws an exception:
>
>             static const regex rpath( "Return-Path:(.*?)Received: ",
>
                                                  regex_constants::icase );
>
> according to http://www.boost.org/libs/regex/doc/syntax.html this is how
non-gready repeats are specified.
> Can anybody figure out what is wrong?

Yes, you need to tell the lib that it's a perl expression:

             static const regex rpath( "Return-Path:(.*?)Received: ",

regex_constants::perl|regex_constants::icase );

John.