RegEx Windows vs Linux

12 Jun 2003

      I compiling the same code on both platforms (same my code, same boost 
code). Under Windows (MSVC++ 6 w/SP something), this compiles:

     // these are constructed w/values, it's just ugly here
     std::string sRegEx();
     std::string sMe();
     boost::regex regexpPattern( sRegEx );
     boost::cmatch mrFound;
     bool bMatch = boost::regex_search(sMe, mrFound, regexpPattern);

Under Linux (gcc 3.3) I get an error message (I added the whitespace):

error: could not convert `mrFound' to
`boost::match_results<
    std::__normal_iterator<
       const char*,
       std::basic_string<
         char,
         std::char_traits<char>,
         std::allocator<char>
       >
    >,
    std::allocator<char>
...
&'
Digging around a little bit, I found this:

template <class iterator, class Allocator>
class match_results : yadda yadda

and

typedef match_results<const char*> cmatch;

This certainly SEEMS much simpler than what the error message claims to 
be looking for.

Can anyone help, please?

Thanks,
   - Mark

RegEx Windows vs Linux

Mark Sizer