Hi,

>> You do have one good question here

My question was the following: Is there a way to get a list or whatever of named captures/groups?

Here is an example:

print_captures("a(?<val1>.*)", "abcbah");

The expected result should be (or something similar):

Expression: "a(?<val1>.*)"

Text: "abcbah"

** Match found **

   Sub-Expressions:

      $0 = "abcbah"

      $1 = "bcbah"

$+{val1} = "bcbah"

   Captures:

      $0 = { "abcbah" }

      $1 = { "bcbah" }

$+{val1} = { "bcbah" }

But I got:

Expression: "a(?<val1>.*)"

Text: "abcbah"

** Match found **

   Sub-Expressions:

      $0 = "abcbah"

      $1 = "bcbah"

   Captures:

      $0 = { "abcbah" }

      $1 = { "bcbah" }

Best Regards

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Von: Anthony Foiani [mailto:tkil@scrye.com]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 31. Jänner 2012 17:49
An: boost-users@lists.boost.org
Cc: NoRulez
Betreff: Re: [Boost-users] Boost.Regex: Iterate over named captures/groups

NoRulez <norulez@me.com> writes:

>    if I have a regex (e.g.: "^Subject: (Re: |Fw: )*(?<subject>.*)")

>

>    I know I can access them with what["subject"] but is there a way to get

>    a list or whatever of named captures/groups?

What would you expect to see?

You asked for a named group "subject", which matches zero or more characters; as such, it will *always* match (if the whole match

succeeds) but it might be empty.

And as for "(Re: |Fw: )*", it will always be submatch 1, and its contents will most likely be whatever it found on the last time through.

You do have one good question here: I don't know how Boost.Regex would signal that "(Re: |Fw: )*" didn't match at all.  (Perl would use undef to distinguish between that case and the empty string, but C++ doesn't have that option.)

And it looks like the answer is (surprise!) in the documentation

already:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/captures.html#boost_regex.captures.unmatched_sub_expressions

   (or: http://preview.tinyurl.com/846ls72 )

Hope this helps,

t.