Re: [Boost-users] regular expression for random word wrap tomultipleline

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-28 08:06:13

John Maddock wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there a way to write *ONE* regular expression to handle this?
>
> Sure just separate the words with \\s+ to give something like:
>
> "sales\\s+and\\s+marketing\\s+\\(\\s*excludes\\s+"
> "stock-based\\s+compensation\\s+of\\s+\\$(\\d+)"
> ",\\s+\\$(\\d+)\\s+and\\s+\\$(\\d+).+RESPECTIVELY\\)"
> "([\\d,.]+)\\s+([\\d,.]+)\\s+([\\d,.]+)"

There's a bug in that expression: I got tired of typing out all yout 
expected text and inserted a .* in there.  That would have to be made 
non-greedy or else removed and replaced with the words you're expecting 
separating by more \\s+ separators.

John.