Re: [Boost-users] regex_search in std::string

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-10 04:43:42

Troy Alexander wrote:
> The 1st regex_search looking at input_line char[] works Ok it's the
> 2nd one looking at date_and_time_s std::string that gets the error.
> If I remark out the 2nd one the program builds and I watch the
> input_line doing what it should in the debugger.
>
> Also this code used to work before I upgraded from Visual C++6 to
> Visual C++8 and from bost_1_33_1 to boost_1_34_0.  I don't know if it
> was the change in compiler or the boost lib that broke this.

In VC6 this worked "by accident" because const char* and 
std::string::const_iterator were the same type.  That's not true in general, 
and you should use boost::smatch as the match_results type for use with 
std::string's.

HTH, John.