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

From: Roger Leigh (rleigh_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-02 18:32:10

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

> 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.

Just to clarify this point.  Does this mean that regex_match
effectively puts ^ and $ on either side of my regex, to ensure it
matches the whole string, whereas regex_search does not?

Many thanks,
Roger

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