Pattern matching with boost

[Dave]

Hello all,

Using Boost (probably regular expressions), how would I check that a
std::string conforms to the pattern "Software Version:
[0-9]+-[0-9]+-[0-9]+-[0-9]+"? For example, the following string should be
accepted:

Software Version: 2-2-8-10

but this should not:

Software Version: 2-2-8-A

I'd like to do something akin to the following:

if (!boost::string_matches_pattern(str, "Software Version:
[0-9]+-[0-9]+-[0-9]+-[0-9]+"))
cout << "Bad software version!\n";

Thanks in advance,
Dave

 

[David Harmon]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:54:29 -0700 in comp.lang.c++, "Dave"

I'd like to do something akin to the following:

if (!boost::string_matches_pattern(str, "Software Version:

Where does that "string_matches_pattern" function come from?
Is it supposed to be another name for "regex_match" from the boost
regex package?