Re: [Boost-users] Regex: Invalid preceding regular expression, problem

Nope there's a bug in the options you are using - boost::regex::extended enables the "POSIX extended" flavour of regular expressions - and these don't support non-greedy repeats. Use boost::regex::perl if you want to use these (since you are using Perl-style regexes).

HTH, John.

That helps very much. Thanks for clearing that up for me, John. brian