[boost] Re: Regex ease-of-use ideas

From: Fredrik Blomqvist (fredrik_blomqvist_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-06 18:20:31

Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> John Maddock wrote:
>
>> Yes, but it's a more general iterator type rather than just regex
>> specific, incidentally I also have a use for a "fileview" class which
>> presents a files contents as a pair of random access iterators.
>
> Like what, boost::spirit::file_iterator
> (boost/spirit/iterator/file_iterator.hpp)?

[Slightly OT for this thread]
This was interesting, any chance of making this a separate, free standing
boost.component?
Memory mapped file access have been briefly discussed before and a
posix/windows implementation of mem-mapped files by Craig Henderson has been
in the sandbox for quite some time.

// Fredrik Blomqvist