Re: [Boost-users] Escaping boost.regex literal string fragments

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Dominique Devienne wrote:

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 6:10 PM, John Maddock wrote:

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On 13/10/2015 14:20, Dominique Devienne wrote:

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Is there no equivalent to http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qregexp.html#escape in Boost.Regex, i.e. a way to escape all special characters so they match "literally"?

No, can you use Perl's \Q \E construct for the same effect?

Sounds like I could indeed. Didn't know about them. Thanks John!

Works great. Thanks again. --DD

I'll try \Q \E using std::regex too.

Apparently there's no Perl syntax in std::regex. So I used boost::regex instead. I'd have prefer std:: though. --DD