Question

This regex will trim the string at line breaks.
I want it to trim both end only and preserve any line breaks in the middle.

string s("     Stack \n Overflow    ");
boost::regex expr("^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$");
std::string fmt("");
cout << boost::regex_replace(s, expr, fmt) << endl;

Answer 1

If you want to make the regular expression match at the beginning and the
end of the input string(want to preserve spaces around the in-between \n),
\A and \z instead of ^ and $ might meet the purpose.
For example:

boost::regex expr("\\A[ \t]+|[ \t]+\\z");