Re: [Boost-users] Using regex on a file

From: Todd Greer (TGreer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-30 20:43:42

Dave wrote:

> My first thought was to use regex_search and pass it two stream
iterators, 
> one pointing to the beginning of the file and one representing the end
of 
> the file. Alas, this won't work since regex_search requires
bidirectional 
> iterators, which stream iterators are not.

You might consider using a file_iterator from Spirit. It is a
random-access iterator for files, which sounds like exactly what you
need. Check it out at
http://www.boost.org/libs/spirit/doc/file_iterator.html.

-- 
Todd