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

AMDG Salvatore Benedetto wrote:

On 5 May 2010 16:10, Nat Goodspeed wrote:

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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