Re: [Boost-users] how to turn on multiline option of boost::regex_search() algorithm

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-13 05:10:11

> important in HTML since it's just whitespace. For this reason,
> instead of matching a line-break, I match whitespace. This also
> handles indentations correctly. Therefore, I'd use the pattern:
>
> "</tr>\s*</table>\s*</td>\s*</tr>\s*</table>\s*</td>\s*</tr>\s*</table>"

Right but those \'s need to be doubled up to be used in a C++ string: 
remember the compiler swallows up the first \ so use

"</tr>\\s*</table>\\s*</td>\\s*</tr>\\s*</table>\\s*</td>\\s*</tr>\\s*</table>"

John.