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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [regex] perl compatibility
From: Christian Henning (chhenning_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-30 20:14:25

Thanks Eric. I'm reading "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl. ;-)

I'll make sure to read the boost::regex documentation, as well. I was
just carried away.

Thanks again.

Christian

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Eric Niebler <eric_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 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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