Perl/Python regular expressions vs. Boost.regex?
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Sat Oct 25 15:04:08 EDT 2008
Rob> Quoting from : <url:http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/ref/regex_match.html>
Rob> <quote>
Rob> Important
Rob> Note that the result is true only if the expression matches the
Rob> whole of the input sequence. If you want to search for an
Rob> expression somewhere within the sequence then use regex_search. If
Rob> you want to match a prefix of the character string then use
Rob> regex_search with the flag match_continuous set.
Rob> </quote>
Rob> So yes it does.
Thanks. I'll try and convince my colleague to use regex_search instead of
regex_match.
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