Re: [Boost-users] [regex] Perl regex special characters

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-08 14:30:50

Andriy Tylychko (mail.ru) wrote:
> Moving this discussion from boost-users to boost-development...
> 
> Thanks for explanation, Roman.
> 
> I've checked this on boost v.1.33.1, but only unmatched "]" is
> allowed, construction of boost::regex("}") claims unmatched "}". Is
> it by design or already fixed in v.1.34?
> 
> I had to handle special characters, so I just "copy/paste"ed from
> docs. And so, I didn't handle "}]". Do you think it's a good idea to
> expand description of special characters in docs to include
> explanation about "}]" characters?
> As I checked, both unmatched "]" (and probably "}" in 1.34) and
> unmatched but escaped "\}\]" are allowed and have the same effect. It
> was very useful for me, so maybe it's worth to mention in docs too.

I'll take a look at this, there are no changes in Boost-1.34 BTW.

John.