Below test program uses the named captures support in boost-regex to extract year, month and day fields from a date (just to illustrate the use of named captures):
#include <boost/regex.hpp>
#include <boost/regex/icu.hpp>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
int main(int argc, const char** argv)
{
std::string str = "2013-08-15";
boost::regex rex("(?<year>[0-9]{4}).*(?<month>[0-9]{2}).*(?<day>[0-9]{2})");
boost::smatch res;
std::string::const_iterator begin = str.begin();
std::string::const_iterator end = str.end();
if (boost::regex_search(begin, end, res, rex))
{
std::cout << "Day: " << res ["day"] << std::endl
<< "Month: " << res ["month"] << std::endl
<< "Year: " << res ["year"] << std::endl;
}
}
Compiled with
g++ regex.cpp -lboost_regex -lboost_locale -licuuc
This little program will produce the following output as expected:
$ ./a.out
Day: 15
Month: 08
Year: 2013
Next I replace the ordinary regex parts with their u32regex counterparts:
#include <boost/regex.hpp>
#include <boost/regex/icu.hpp>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
int main(int argc, const char** argv)
{
std::string str = "2013-08-15";
boost::u32regex rex = boost::make_u32regex("(?<year>[0-9]{4}).*(?<month>[0-9]{2}).*(?<day>[0-9]{2})", boost::regex_constants::perl);
boost::smatch res;
std::string::const_iterator begin = str.begin();
std::string::const_iterator end = str.end();
if (boost::u32regex_search(begin, end, res, rex))
{
std::cout << "Day: " << res ["day"] << std::endl
<< "Month: " << res ["month"] << std::endl
<< "Year: " << res ["year"] << std::endl;
}
}
Building an running the program now results in a run-time exception suggesting an uninitialized shared_ptr:
$ ./a.out
a.out: /usr/include/boost/smart_ptr/shared_ptr.hpp:648: typename boost::detail::sp_member_access<T>::type boost::shared_ptr<T>::operator->() const [with T = boost::re_detail::named_subexpressions; typename boost::detail::sp_member_access<T>::type = boost::re_detail::named_subexpressions*]: Assertion `px != 0' failed.
I'm not using shared pointers directly though.
This is with boost 1.58.1 and gcc 5.3.1.
How can I get the u32regex version of the program running correctly as well ?