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

From: Christopher Hart (hartct_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-22 07:54:57

Wow, what a simple, silly mistake.  Once corrected, it works fine.
Thanks for the suggestions on case insensitivity and spacing, too.
Now I'm off to get iterators working!

Thanks,
Chris

On 5/22/06, John Maddock <john_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Christopher Hart wrote:
> > I've run into a problem where I'm getting an "Invalid content of
> > repeat range" when attempting to match a string using greediness and
> > capture operators.  I'm using the following function (basically taken
> > from the "print captures" example in the regex docs):
>
> > find_matches(html, "<p class=\"priceBest\"><a href=(.*?)>");
>
> Your arguments are the wrong way around there, the expression works just
> fine for me otherwise.
>
> > The pattern I'm trying to match is working in Perl program (e.g. if
> > ($html =~ m|<p class="priceBest"><a href=(.*?)>|gs) {...} ), so it
> > seems like the pattern should be syntactically correct.  I'm building
> > on Mac OS X 10.4 (Intel) with Boost 1.33.1.
>
> You might want to make the expression case insensitive in case the data has
> <P> rather than <p>, and insert a \s* in between the <p> and the <a> just in
> case....
>
> Just a couple of random thoughts,
>
> John.
>
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