Re: [Boost-users] [date_time] How to create a date from stringwithspecific format?

From: Sebastian Redl (sebastian.redl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-22 11:44:19

Christian Henning wrote:

>Andrew, the following code is not working on my machine. Can you check
>if it is on your machine, please? The size of the match container is
>just one. I'm using VC7.1 and Boost 1.33.1.
>
>int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
>{
>   //second approach
>   boost::regex oDateReg2( "\\d{2}-\\d{2}-\\d{4}" );
>   std::string strDate2( "11-22-1997" );
>  
>
This regular expression does not contain captures. The size of the match 
container is supposed to be 1. Try this instead:

boost::regex oDateReg2( "(\\d{2})-(\\d{2})-(\\d{4})" );

Sebastian Redl