Re: [Boost-users] [regex] Strange behavior with greediness operators?

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-28 07:36:00

Christopher Hart wrote:
> All:
>
> I think I'm seeing strange behavior with the greediness operators in
> Boost.Regex (1.33.1, Mac OS 10.4.6), but was hoping someone could
> confirm that I'm using them correctly.  For example, the following two
> calls:

No you're calling regex_match when you should be calling regex_search:

regex_match will only find matches that match ALL OF THE INPUT STRING, if 
you want a subset of the input to match then you need to use regex_search.

John.