Re: [Boost-users] [regex] "Invalid content of repeat range" when using greediness and capture operators?

From: Dale McCoy (dalestan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-21 21:06:39

On 5/21/06, Christopher Hart <hartct_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> void find_matches(const std::string& regx, const std::string& text)
> <snip>
> ... invoked by:
>
> find_matches(html, "<p class=\"priceBest\"><a href=(.*?)>");

The arguments here do not seem to agree with the formal parameter
names. Did you inadvertently reverse them?

I'm also wondering about that ".*?"; my limited experience with
regexing has taught me never to follow a . with a *. But I'll leave
further discussion on that to someone who has used boost::regex.

Dale