Re: [Boost-users] Parsing URI's using boost regex

From: Cory Nelson (phrosty_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-02 16:07:42

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Reena Dass <Reena.Dass_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I'm trying to write a parser for URIs. I tried the grammar straight from RFC
> 2396
>
> boost::regex
> parser("^(([^:/?#]+):)?(//([^/?#]*))?([^?#]*)(\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?",
>
>             boost::regex::perl|boost::regex::icase);
>
>
>
> This does not work since it I get an exception due to invalid regular
> expression.
>
> What am I doing wrong here?
>

The \? should be \\?, that could be why.

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Cory Nelson