Daniel Frey wrote: > Hi John, Hi .*, > > Given that I have a string 's' from somewhere, I'd like to create a > regular expression where some part must match that string. The problem > is, the 's' could contain characters that have a special meaning in > regular expressions. Is there some support function that can provide > an escaped version of 's'? Something that transforms "my.*string" into > "my\.\*string"? If there isn't, would it be possible/easy to provide > one?
You can turn on the literal flag type. All characters in your regular expression are treated as literals. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
