Re: [boost] [regex] unknown escape sequenceinlibs/regex/test/regress/test_perl_ex.cpp

14 Jan 2008


      John Maddock wrote:
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Boris Gubenko wrote:
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regex library tests regex_regress[_threaded] fail to compile on
 gcc-4.2.1_hpux_ia64 because for a character string
"(?<=*|\B)"
gcc 4.2.1 emits a hard error "unknown escape sequence". gcc 3.4
 series issues a warning, as well as EDG-based compilers. See
reproducer below.
The character string in question should, probably, be: "(?<=*|\\B)".
Ok to change?
Yes please!
Never mind, I see the problem, fixed in SVN, John.