std::regex_error

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Defined in header <regex>
class regex_error : public std::runtime_error {

  public:
    explicit regex_error(regex_constants::error_type ecode);
    regex_constants::error_type code() const;

};
(since C++11)

Defines the type of object thrown as exceptions to report errors from the regular expressions library.

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[edit] Member functions

constructs a regex_error object
(public member function)
gets the std::regex_constants::error_type for a regex_error
(public member function)

Inherited from std::exception

Member functions

[virtual]
destructs the exception object
(virtual public member function of std::exception)
[virtual]
returns an explanatory string
(virtual public member function of std::exception)

[edit] Example

#include <regex>
#include <iostream>
 
int main()
{
    try {
        std::regex re("[a-b][a");
    } catch(const std::regex_error& e)
    {
        std::cout << "regex_error caught: " << e.what() << '\n';
        if(e.code() == std::regex_constants::error_brack)
              std::cout << "The code was error_brack\n";
    }
}

Output:

regex_error caught: The expression contained mismatched [ and ].
The code was error_brack