Re: [Boost-users] boost::regex - I do not understand why this testfails.

Below it is a self contained example and the output it produces.

I thought I would get a match for REGEX2 but not for REGEX1 in string s. However REGEX1 matches and produces weird (for me) results. I would expect REGEX1 only matches for strings with 6 terms (3 words and 3 numbers).

static const std::string& REGEX1 = "\\s*(\\w+)\\s+([\\d,\\.]+)\\s+([\\d,\\.]+)\\s([\\d,\\.]+)\\s*$";

Ugh? REGEX1 will match a string containing *one* word (the "(\\w+)" part), followed by three numbers which may also contain any number of "."'s or ","'s. And that's exactly what it's doing isn't it? Maybe I've missed something? John.