Re: [boost] find the subexpression that matched

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-10 05:45:07

> I'd like to tag a question onto the coattails of this one.  I haven't 
> given
> it much thought, so if there's a terribly obvious reason this wouldn't 
> work
> from a theoretical standpoint (or it's already in the implementation),
> please let me down easy.  <g>  Okay, I know there's no reasonable way to
> parse arbitrarily-nested constructs with regexes, but it's always seemed 
> to
> me that it might be almost as useful to be able to extract the number of
> times a captured submatch with one of the repetition operators following
> actually matched.  I also can't think of a reason it couldn't be done, off
> the top of my head.  Your take?

My take is it's already been done: see the section on repeated captures in 
http://www.boost.org/libs/regex/doc/captures.html

Does that answer your question?

John.