6:50 PM C regex "Invalid regular expression" |
If you are thrown at legacy C code and see "Invalid regular expression" from regexec -- don't rush to blame your regular expression. The root cause for the "Invalid regular expression" could be improper set of flags used with the regexec call. Synapsis You have a simple regex. regcomp does compile the regex just fine. But when you get to regexec - it fails with "Invalid regular expression", and the regexec call uses some flags like this: regexec(compiled_regex, subj_string, 0, NULL, REG_NOSUB | REG_ICASE); // the flags are WRONG!
Solution Get rid of improper flags. The only acceptable flags to the regexec are: REG_NOTBOL - Do not regard the beginning of the specified string as the beginning of a line; more generally, don’t make any assumptions about what text might precede it. REG_NOTEOL - Do not regard the end of the specified string as the end of a line; more generally, don’t make any assumptions about what text might follow it. REG_NOSUB, REG_ICASE or whatever else - are supposed to be used with regcomp For details see regex.h and/or Matching a Compiled POSIX Regular Expression. |
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