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

From: L.P. Mergen (mergenlp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-02 05:50:20

Ahh, that did the trick, thanks a lot!

Grt,

Leon Mergen

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, tweety wrote:

> Why not use regex_search?
> 
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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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