Regular Expressions

[ustulation]

hello,
I need the support of regular expressions to parse certain outputs..by googling i found out that boost regex is the most recommended..i couldnt properly figure out though what to do next...i have g++ (GCC) 4.4.0 (MinGW, Windows Vista) as my compiler and i dont use IDE's (directly write codes in notepad++ OR Vim)..

can someone pls tell me step by step process of having boost regex features at my disposal..boost site has too many links and is confusing..thanks

thanks!!

[Athar]

Download boost then extract the boost folder from the archive to your MinGW include folder.
That's it.

[ustulation]

k..So no bjam's and b2's stated in the boost web site for some libraries like boost regex ?

i have started downloading...it's abt 87 MB's...i'll try what you said and get back
thanks!!

[Athar]

Ah yes, it seems Boost.Regex is one of the few boost libraries that need to be built.
Just follow the "Getting started" guide.

[Duthomhas]

Just so you know, it takes a while for boost to compile. After it does, you need to move all those DLL and LIB files (in the "lib" directory) to your C:\MinGW\lib directory, and you will need copy all the stuff in the boost "include" directory to C:\MinGW\include\boost.

You will also need to be careful when compiling to link to the proper boost library. Sometimes it is not clear which one to use. For example, I have the following files:

libboost_regex-mgw44.lib
libboost_regex-mgw44-1_42.lib
libboost_regex-mgw44-d.lib
libboost_regex-mgw44-d-1_42.lib
libboost_regex-mgw44-mt.lib
libboost_regex-mgw44-mt-1_42.lib
libboost_regex-mgw44-mt-d.lib
libboost_regex-mgw44-mt-d-1_42.lib
libboost_regex-mgw44-mt-s.lib
libboost_regex-mgw44-mt-s-1_42.lib
libboost_regex-mgw44-mt-sd.lib
libboost_regex-mgw44-mt-sd-1_42.lib
libboost_regex-mgw44-s.lib
libboost_regex-mgw44-s-1_42.lib
libboost_regex-mgw44-sd.lib
libboost_regex-mgw44-sd-1_42.lib

Choosing which one is sometimes simply trying to compile with each one until you get the one your compiler is looking for...