[Boost-Users] boost.regex and submatches

From: John Maddock (john_maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-13 07:05:38

>I'm trying to match strings of the form "a&b&c&d" with the following 
>expression: "(?:([^&]+)&)*([^&]+)". This nicely matches the whole 
>string but instead of giving me the submatches "a", "b", "c" and "d" 
>I just get "c" and "d". Could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Look more closely at your expression: it has only *two* marked
sub-expressions, $1 gets "overwritten" each time it matches.

- John Maddock
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