Switched from moving the cursor forward (in Regex) to ignoring (this handles newlines properly).

Updated some of the character-in-scalar rules.

exp.h

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ namespace YAML
 		const RegEx BlockEntry = RegEx('-') + (BlankOrBreak || RegEx(EOF));
 		const RegEx Key = RegEx('?'),
 		            KeyInFlow = RegEx('?') + BlankOrBreak;
-		const RegEx Value = RegEx(':'),
+		const RegEx Value = RegEx(':') + BlankOrBreak,
 		            ValueInFlow = RegEx(':') + BlankOrBreak;
 		const RegEx Comment = RegEx('#');
 		const RegEx AnchorEnd = RegEx("?:,]}%@`", REGEX_OR) || BlankOrBreak;
@@ -38,12 +38,11 @@ namespace YAML
 		// . Cannot start with a blank.
 		// . Can never start with any of , [ ] { } # & * ! | > \' \" % @ `
 		// . In the block context - ? : must be not be followed with a space.
-		// . In the flow context ? : are illegal and - must not be followed with a space.
+		// . In the flow context ? is illegal and : and - must not be followed with a space.
 		const RegEx PlainScalar = !(BlankOrBreak || RegEx(",[]{}#&*!|>\'\"%@`", REGEX_OR) || (RegEx("-?:", REGEX_OR) + Blank)),
-	                PlainScalarInFlow = !(BlankOrBreak || RegEx("?:,[]{}#&*!|>\'\"%@`", REGEX_OR) || (RegEx('-') + Blank));
-		const RegEx IllegalColonInScalar = RegEx(':') + !BlankOrBreak;
+		            PlainScalarInFlow = !(BlankOrBreak || RegEx("?,[]{}#&*!|>\'\"%@`", REGEX_OR) || (RegEx("-:", REGEX_OR) + Blank));
 		const RegEx EndScalar = RegEx(':') + BlankOrBreak,
-		            EndScalarInFlow = (RegEx(':') + BlankOrBreak) || RegEx(",:?[]{}", REGEX_OR);
+		            EndScalarInFlow = (RegEx(':') + BlankOrBreak) || RegEx(",?[]{}", REGEX_OR);
 
 		const RegEx EscSingleQuote = RegEx("\'\'");
 		const RegEx EscBreak = RegEx('\\') + Break;

regex.cpp

@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ namespace YAML
 				return -1;
 
 			offset += n;
-			in.seekg(n, std::ios_base::cur);
+			in.ignore(n);
 		}
 
 		return offset;

scantoken.cpp

@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ namespace YAML
 
 		// set up the scanning parameters
 		ScanScalarParams params;
-		params.end = (m_flowLevel > 0 ? Exp::EndScalarInFlow : Exp::EndScalar) || (RegEx(' ') + Exp::Comment);
+		params.end = (m_flowLevel > 0 ? Exp::EndScalarInFlow : Exp::EndScalar) || (Exp::BlankOrBreak + Exp::Comment);
 		params.eatEnd = false;
 		params.indent = (m_flowLevel > 0 ? 0 : m_indents.top() + 1);
 		params.fold = true;
@@ -294,10 +294,9 @@ namespace YAML
 		// can have a simple key only if we ended the scalar by starting a new line
 		m_simpleKeyAllowed = params.leadingSpaces;
 
-		// finally, we can't have any colons in a scalar, so if we ended on a colon, there
-		// had better be a break after it
-		if(Exp::IllegalColonInScalar.Matches(INPUT))
-			throw ParserException(INPUT.line, INPUT.column, ErrorMsg::CHAR_IN_SCALAR);
+		// finally, check and see if we ended on an illegal character
+		//if(Exp::IllegalCharInScalar.Matches(INPUT))
+		//	throw ParserException(INPUT.line, INPUT.column, ErrorMsg::CHAR_IN_SCALAR);
 
 		Token *pToken = new Token(TT_SCALAR, line, column);
 		pToken->value = scalar;

tests/scalars.yaml

@@ -21,4 +21,15 @@
   that gets chomped.
 - >2
        Here's a folded scalar
-  that starts with some indentation.
+  that starts with some indentation.
+- ::vector
+- ": - ()"
+- Up, up, and away!
+- -123
+- http://example.com/foo#bar
+# Inside flow collection:
+- [ ::vector,
+  ": - ()",
+  "Up, up and away!",
+  -123,
+  http://example.com/foo#bar ]