Re: [Boost-users] Boost::Regex question

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-09 07:43:57

Dima Kagan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently evaluating the Regex package and encountered a minor
> issue. 
> I need to match a string that can contain some special characters
> (.[{()\*+?|^$) as well. 
> My question is if there is a way to tell Regex to treat this string
> "as is", including the special characters? I need to do this without
> escaping the special characters in the string or the match
> expression.  
> For those of you familiar with Tcl Expect, I'm looking for an option
> similar to "expect -ex". 

boost::regex e(mystring, boost::regex::literal);

HTH, John.