Re: [Boost-users] Regex match problem

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-25 11:47:44

Kalin Nakov wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I experience big troubles with regex matching. The code below should
>> obviously match 'abc', but does not, because it tries to match the
>> whole string. If r='abcdefg', then match is successfull, but if it
>> is only 'abc' and input is 'abcdef', the match always fails as
>> described below. 
>> 
>> boost::match_results<std::string::const_iterator> m;
>> std::string inp = "abcdefg";
>> boost::regex r = "abc";
>> if (!boost::regex_match(inp, m, r, boost::match_default))
>>   // always fails, don't know why
>> 
>> How can I successfully match 'abc' agains input 'abcdefg'?

Use regex_search.

John.