2013/12/27 Asmita Gaikwad
Hi,
Environment: Windows 7 (32 bit), Visual Studio 2010 (Visual C++)
I am trying to use Boost REGEX regex_match algorithm. I am using its grep flag. My code is as follows and here (a)* matches string "aaa", but still b comes out to be false.
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*bool* MatchWithGrep(string& pattern, string& data)
{
*const* boost::regex e(pattern.c_str(), boost::regex::grep);
*return* regex_match(data.c_str(), e);
}
I am passing following parameters
*bool* b = MatchWithGrep("(a)*\\n123", "aaa");
I think your problem is "\\n". Shouldn't it be "\n"? (Not tested, reasoning from the doc you qouted below) HTH, Kris In Boost Help, following is documented.
Link - http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/syntax/...
When an expression is compiled with the flag grep set, then the expression is treated as a newline separated list of POSIX-Basic expressions, a match is found if any of the expressions in the list match, for example:
boost::regex e("abc\ndef", boost::regex::grep);
will match either of the POSIX-Basic expressions "abc" or "def".
Considering this, in my example i have 2 basic expressions (a)* and 123. (Since its c++ string \\n will be taken as \n internally. I had debugged the code and i can see value of variable pattern as "(a)*\n123" in watch window). Presence of any should give me bool b as true. And my data is "aaa". So it should give true. But i am getting false.
Can anyone help me to find what’s wrong with my code?
Thanks & Regards,
Asmita