Equal sign in Boost RegEx

Question

Hello all,

I've got a problem with the following Boost regular expression,

boost::regex e("=");
if(regex_search("=", e)) cout << "yeah";

Can anybody please tell me why I don't get a "yeah"? This is Boost 1.37 with Visual Studio 2008. Thank you very much in advance!

Answer 1

Using that same code, I do get the "yeah" here.

Note that I had to add boost:: to the beginning of regex_search, and that I'm running on GCC under Linux. I don't have Boost 1.37 set up under Windows yet, so I can't easily test it there.

Answer 2

I just tried the code you gave, on Visual Studio 2008, with Boost 1.37, and it compiles, runs, and outputs "yeah". Are you sure you set up Boost correctly?