RE: [Boost-users] boost::regex partial matches

From: tweety (mitea_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-01 12:16:43

Why not use regex_search?

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Peace and love,
Tweety
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden] 
> [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of L.P. Mergen
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 10:10 AM
> To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
> Subject: [Boost-users] boost::regex partial matches
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I apologise in advance if this question is not direct to the right 
> mailinglist, but this was the best I could find. The IRC channel also 
> seems very quite... :)
> 
> I am currently experimenting with the boost::regex library, 
> and so far it 
> seems to do just the thing I need. However, when I have a regex
> 
> "[0-9]+[a-zA-Z]+"
> 
> And want to match this against the string
> 
> "42foo 42bar"
> 
> It returns false. This is (as far as I can see) due to the 
> library not 
> taking partial matches too, even when I set the 
> boost::match_partial and 
> boost::match_any flags (which, according to my 
> interpretation, should be 
> doing the trick).
> 
> Here is my statement:
> 
> bool success = boost::regex_match(subject->c_str(), returns, 
> expression, boost::match_partial | boost::match_any);
> 
> I hope anyone has an idea what might be the problem here. Thanks in 
> advance! :)
> 
> Grt,
> 
> Leon Mergen
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