Re: [boost] Re: Spirit question...

From: Joel de Guzman (djowel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-27 01:48:57

David B. Held <dheld_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> "Chris Cooney" <thatdidnthurt_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:Law9-OE293SpwBGpEI200000933_at_hotmail.com...
>> [...]
>> That was my problem - thank you.
> 
> The moral being:
> 
>     Using anychar_p all by itself is usually a Bad Thing(TM)

More accurately:  Using *anychar_p or +anychar_p all by itself is usually a Bad Thing(TM)

> That's because it's like the langoliers--it eats everything up.
> You usually want to say what it shouldn't eat up by subtracting the
> terminating character from the parser.  I think this is a Spirit FAQ.

It is now ;-)

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