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FarFarAway
FarFarAway

Reputation: 1115

unchecked exception while running regex- get file name without extention from file path

I have this simple program 

string str = "D:\Praxisphase 1 project\test\Brainstorming.docx";
regex ex("[^\\]+(?=\.docx$)");
if (regex_match(str, ex)){
    cout << "match found"<< endl;
}

expecting the result to be true, my regex is working since I have tried it online, but when trying to run in C++ , the app throws unchecked exception.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 41

Answers (1)

Wiktor Stribiżew
Wiktor Stribiżew

Reputation: 627022

First of all, use raw string literals when defining regex to avoid issues with backslashes (the \. is not a valid escape sequence, you need "\\." or R"(\.)"). Second, regex_match requires a full string match, thus, use regex_search.

#include <iostream>
#include <regex>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main() {
    string str = R"(D:\Praxisphase 1 project\test\Brainstorming.docx)";
    // OR
    // string str = R"D:\\Praxisphase 1 project\\test\\Brainstorming.docx";
    regex ex(R"([^\\]+(?=\.docx$))");
    if (regex_search(str, ex)){
        cout << "match found"<< endl;
    }
    return 0;
}

See the C++ demo

Note that R"([^\\]+(?=\.docx$))" = "[^\\\\]+(?=\\.docx$)", the \ in the first are literal backslashes (and you need two backslashes in a regex pattern to match a \ symbol), and in the second, the 4 backslashes are necessary to declare 2 literal backslashes that will match a single \ in the input text.

Upvotes: 1

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