Re: [Boost-users] [regex] perl compatibility

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [regex] perl compatibility
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-30 20:00:43

On 10/30/2010 4:54 PM, Christian Henning wrote:
> Hi there, I was under the expression that a regular expression which
> works with perl would also work with boost::regex. The following very
> simple test program doesn't work:
> 
>     if( boost::regex_match( "query", boost::regex( "q[u]" )))
>     {
>         cout << "match" << endl;
>     }
>     else
>     {
>         cout << "no match" << endl;
>     }

You should read the docs. regex_match only returns true if the regex
matches *all* of the input. Use regex_search.

And read the docs. :-)

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Eric Niebler
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