I have an inherited VC++ program that I am trying to port to Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 (it compiles and runs fine in Visual Studio 6.0). I've downloaded the 1.30.0 release, and the following problem still occurs. The (exceptionally) verbose error message I receive from the compiler is: error C2664: 'bool boost::regex_match,Allocator,char ,boost::regex_traits<charT>,std::allocator<_Ty>>(const std::basic_string<_Elem,_Traits,_Ax> &,boost::match_results &,const boost::reg_expression &,unsigned int)' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'boost::cmatch' to 'boost::match_results &' with [ _Ty=char, Allocator=std::allocator<char>, charT=char, _Elem=char, _Traits=std::char_traits<char>, _Ax=std::allocator<char>, iterator=std::basic_string ::const_iterator, traits=boost::regex_traits<char> ] and [ iterator=std::basic_string ::const_iterator, Allocator=std::allocator<char> ] The Code fragment I get the error on is: // lpcszDeviceName is a function parameter defined as LPCTSTR lpcszDeviceName TSTRING strName = lpcszDeviceName; boost::regex expr("IW\\s+[A-Za-z]+\\s+([0-9]+)"); boost::cmatch matches; if (boost::regex_match(strName, matches, expr)) { ... } with the error message pointing to: if (boost::regex_match(strName, matches, expr)) This may be related to a Microsoft note: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore/html /vclrfsomeiteratorsarenolongersameaspointers.asp but, then again, it may not. Anyone have any suggestions? I am well out of my depth in trying to understand the incantations here, and have a dozen spots in the code where this occurs. TIA, /frank