Can boost::regex_search be done on a wstring?

Question

This is what I tried:

std::wstring extractText(std::wstring line) {
    std::wstring text;

    boost::regex exp("^.*?PRIVMSG #.*? :(.+)");
    boost::smatch match;

    if (boost::regex_search(line, match, exp)) {
              text = std::wstring(match[1].first, match[1].second);
             }

    return text;
    }

Answer 1

use wregex and wsmatch

Answer 2

I believe so, but you'll need to use boost::wsmatch instead of smatch, and wregex as well.