I am using boost 1.67.0 regex to find matching filenames in current folder using following snippet
boost::filesystem::path p(".");
if(is_directory(p)) {
for(auto& entry : boost::make_iterator_range(boost::filesystem::directory_iterator(p), {})){
std::stringstream ss;
ss << entry;
std::string filename = ss.str();
std::cout << filename << std::endl;
boost::regex pattern("some_\\d+_file\.txt");
if(boost::regex_match(filename, pattern)){
std::cout << "matched" << filename << std::endl;
}
}
}
Contents of current directory, produced by std::cout << filename << std::endl;
line, are:
"./myApp.out"
"./some_0_file.txt"
"./some_1_file.txt"
"./other_file.txt"
"./some_other_file.txt"
"./some_2_file.txt"
To confirm that my matching expression is correct I consulted Perl Regular Expression Syntax. Also confirmed it using RegEx101.com, output correctly shows 3 matches as follows:
some_0_file.txt
some_1_file.txt
some_2.file.txt
Question
Is there anything wrong with my snippet or RegEx? Why boost::regex_match
produce 0 match?
What have I missed?
boost::filesystem::path p(".");
if (is_directory(p)) {
for (auto& entry : boost::make_iterator_range(boost::filesystem::directory_iterator(p), {})) {
std::stringstream ss;
ss << entry.path().string(); //2
std::string filename = ss.str();
std::cout << filename << std::endl;
boost::regex pattern(".*some_\\d+_file\\.txt"); //1
if (boost::regex_match(filename, pattern)) {
std::cout << "matched" << filename << std::endl;
}
}
}
1.regex_match
only consider a full match
2.operator<<(std::basic_ostream<Char, Traits>& os, const path& p)
will use boost::io::quoted()
and add quotes to handle spaces in paths