Re: [boost] Syntactic sugar for regex

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-07-26 10:18:05

At 07:08 AM 7/26/2001, John Maddock wrote:

 >
 >>       I've been toying around with an alternate, more concise syntax 
for
 >common
 >>regular expression operations. Perl is a personal favorite for string
 >>manipulation, so I've partially mimicked its syntax as an add-on module 
to
 >
 >>regex. I rarely find that I require more than these simple operations
 >(match
 >>and sed-like replace).
 >
 >Doug, I think this is beginning to grow on me a little - I hadn't thought
 >of using operator overloading to simulate the /expression/format/ perl
 >syntax, I would be interested if there are any perl guru's around here, 
and
 >what they think.
 >
 >BTW you could extend the operator overloading a little to handle strings 
as
 >arguments (as well as precompileed regex's), I wonder if it's possible to
 >to overload operator=~ or failing that a binary operator~, or failing 
that
 >how about operator>> for the string part:
 >
 >boost success = mystring >> myregex
 >std::string s = mystring >> myregex/myformat
 >
 >I'm not sure if this is better or worse though...

Interesting!

But I'm having trouble seeing the big picture.  How does this relate to 
Darin Adler's http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/string_algorithm/ 
stuff?

--Beman