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FAQ: to include \\ in your documentation ... #169

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[*A.] If you embed regular expressions in C++ code, then remember that escape
characters are processed twice: once by the C++ compiler, and once by the
Boost.Regex expression compiler, so to pass the regular expression \d+
to Boost.Regex, you need to embed "\\d+" in your code. Likewise to match a
literal backslash you will need to embed "\\\\" in your code.
to Boost.Regex, you need to embed "\\\\d+" in your code. Likewise to match a
literal backslash you will need to embed "\\\\\\\\" in your code.

[*Q.] No matter what I do regex_match always returns false, what's going on?

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