Re: [Boost-users] Regex failure when matching with a POSIX extendedregexp

From: Roger Leigh (rleigh_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-01 14:11:44

"John Maddock" <john_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Roger Leigh wrote:
>> I expect both regular expressions here to match with the value string.
>> They certainly to with egrep.  However, I only get the second to
>> match:
>>
>> Am I correct in my expectation that expression1 will match?  If not,
>> what should I be doing to make it match?
>
> Use regex_search.  regex_match will only succeed if the expression matches 
> *all* of the string, regex_search will *find* a sub-string that matches.

Ah, that's just what I needed.  It works perfectly.  Thank you all for
your help!

Regards,
Roger

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