Re: [Boost-users] Regular Expression (vers. 1.34.1)

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Regular Expression (vers. 1.34.1)
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-05 10:23:21

AMDG

Salvatore Benedetto wrote:
> On 5 May 2010 16:10, Nat Goodspeed <nat_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>   
>> This might (or might not) work better:
>> "\\.\\/\\w+(\\.txt)"
>>     
>
> Indeed I was missing a backslash.
>
> The following worked as I expected.
>
> std::string expression("\.\/\\w+(\.txt)");
>   

Actual not.  The first level of backslashes is
processed by C++.  The regex library never sees
them.  This pattern with match
x/filename-txt, since . is a wild card.

In  Christ,
Steven Watanabe