Re: [Boost-users] [regex] validating expressions

John Maddock wrote:

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Is this the correct way to validate a regex expression?

bool validateExpression(std::string e) { using namespace boost; return !expression.empty() && !regex(e, regex_constants::no_except).empty(); }

This passes all of my existing unit tests except for the following strings which boost::regex reports as valid.

"[[[A-Z]]" "[A-Z]??"

Both Qt's QRegExp and http://www.regexplanet.com/simple/index.html report the first is invalid. Qt's QRegExp reports the second as invalid, while http://www.regexplanet.com/simple/index.html report it as valid.

Is boost::regex right or remiss? Is there a better on line regex validator?

They're both accepted by Perl-5.10 and hence by Boost.Regex.

HTH, John.

Thanks again John, Jeff