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AzureFire

Thu May 03, 2007 7:41 pm


Regex Libraries

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Hey guys, I was just wondering what some of you guys thought was the best (and preferably easy to install) library for Regular Expressions. 
 
Thanks for the help! 
 
P.S. I'm using Dev C++ 4.9.9.2, so compatibility might be an issue for those of you that use other compilers/IDEs.


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wtd

Fri May 04, 2007 1:36 am


RE:Regex Libraries

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Boost.Regex


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AzureFire

Sun May 06, 2007 6:49 pm


Re: Regex Libraries

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Thanks for the reply, though I do have a small problem.

(Problem solved! I needed to use \\

I'm trying to escape the "). The program runs, but does not recognize matches. (I have also tried using \x5B \x5D \N{left-square-bracket} and \N{right-square-bracket}) If however, in the program I have the user type in the exact same expression, it does work.

Any idea what's going on here?

Here's the expression I'm using to test:

^\[(.*)=(.*)\]$

...and I'm trying to match it to:

[item=12]

It works on several online regex testers and a Firefox plugin, just as typed above.

Any help is appreciated.