[Boost-users] Re: regex bug (regex_search throws bad_expression)

From: Adam Molnar (ed_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-21 05:50:54

> > using the latest regex patch and vc7.1 i've accidentally encountered
> > the following:
> >
> > ...
> >  regex re("([^\n]*\\n+\\s+)+NEEDEDSUBITEM2:[^\\s]");
> >  bool matched =  regex_search(text, re); // bad_expression
>
> You are putting a new-line character in your regular expression, "([^\n".
> Perhaps that is causing your problem.

no, that's just a typo. the same with "\\n"