Re: [Boost-Users] regex: flag for "global" search?

From: John Maddock (john_maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-30 06:45:37

> I'm trying to capture the sub-expressions in a fqdn (e.g.,
> one.two.three.com.).  One piece of Perl-speak for the expression is: "/
> (\w+)\./g".  I've been using boost_search and trying variations on "(?:
> (\\w+)\\.)+" but I can't seem to get all the sub-expressions into the
> match_results.
>
> There's got to be a flag I've been overlooking.  Any suggestion will be
> appreciated.

No it doesn't work like that - if you want to find all occurrences of an
expression then you need to either:

* Repeatedly call regex_search
or
* Use regex_grep instead.

John Maddock
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