i try to use the regex library for binary data. I tried this code:
string h("\x81\x05\x00\x48"); regex e2("\x81\x05\x00(.)"); smatch m; if (regex_match(h, m, e2)) { cout << "0. matched=" << (m[0].matched?"true":"false") << endl; cout << "0. match length=" << m[0].str().size() << endl; cout << "0. match character=" << m[0].str() << endl; cout << "1. matched=" << (m[1].matched?"true":"false") << endl; cout << "1. match length=" << m[1].str().size() << endl; cout << "1. match character=" << m[1].str() << endl; }
The thing is if you pass a const char* to either basic_string or boost::regex then it will assume that the string is null-terminated, which as you have found does the wrong thing in this case. In both cases use the constructor that takes a string length as well as a pointer: string h("\x81\x05\x00\x48", 4); regex e2("\x81\x05\x00(.)", 7, regex::perl); Hope this helps, John.