> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org
> [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of John Maddock
> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 11:08 AM
> To: boost-users@lists.boost.org
> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] regex_replace with file streams
>
>>I want to use regex_replace to operate on a potentially large input
>>file and output the results to another file. So, I can't load the
>>entire file into a buffer in memory and pass it in as is done in the
>>examples. I can't seem to figure out how to pass fstream or some other
>>file I/O into regex_replace (ie create the proper iterator).
>
> Take a look at the second example in
> http://www.boost.org/libs/regex/doc/partial_matches.html
>
> Unfortunately if you want to do a search and replace in an "infinite" text,
> then you're not going to be able to use regex_replace. Instead you'll have
> to enumerate through the matches and copy unmatched sections to output, and
> then call match_results::format on matched sections to get the text to
> output for that section.
>
> HTH, John.
>
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