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

Salvatore Benedetto wrote:

Here is the expression I'm using.

boost::regex regularExpression; std::string expression("\.\/\w+(\.txt)");

I haven't reviewed the syntax of the regular expression or the code you're using to match it. But I can tell you that your backslashes are not being passed to the library as you expect because of the rules of ordinary C++ string literals. This might (or might not) work better: "\\.\\/\\w+(\\.txt)"