Thanks for your help.  (And all the effort that went into
the regex library.)

I'm using 1.31.0 (unpatched).  After a more careful examination,
my problem was that I was passing the wrong kind of allocator
as a template parameter.

Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org
> [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of John Maddock
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 5:33 AM
> To: boost-users@lists.boost.org
> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] regex:
> match_results::const_reference is sometimessub_match<Bidi
> Iterator>, sometimes const char?
>
>
> > The regex library is extremely helpful: thanks for all your efforts.
> >
> > I've got a problem with gcc and stlport and boost: when I try
> > to get a submatch on other platforms, I can take my match object, m,
> > and do things like
> >
> > m[n].str();  // works great elsewhere
> >
> > But with gcc / stlport, with BOOST_NO_STD_ALLOCATOR not defined,
> > the const_reference type is defined as Allocator::const_reference
> > (which is `const char'), rather than sub_match<BidiIterator>.
> > So operator[] gives me a char, and life isn't so good.
> >
> > Any hints as to where I went astray?
>
> Works for me (with Boost-1.31.0 + latest patches), what
> version are you
> using?
>
> John.
>
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