Explicit Return Type of Lambda

Question

When I try and compile this code (VS2010) I am getting the following error: error C3499: a lambda that has been specified to have a void return type cannot return a va

Answer 1

The return type of a lambda (in C++11) can be deduced, but only when there is exactly one statement, and that statement is a return statement that returns an expression (an initializer list is not an expression, for example). If you have a multi-statement lambda, then the return type is assumed to be void.

Therefore, you should do this:

  remove_if(rawLines.begin(), rawLines.end(), [&expression, &start, &end, &what, &flags](const string& line) -> bool
  {
    start = line.begin();
    end = line.end();
    bool temp = boost::regex_search(start, end, what, expression, flags);
    return temp;
  })

But really, your second expression is a lot more readable.