Re: [Boost-users] Xpressive continuing search from previous match

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Xpressive continuing search from previous match
From: K. Noel Belcourt (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-07 19:21:37

On Jan 7, 2010, at 5:01 PM, K. Noel Belcourt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a search for a regular expression like this.
>
>    sregex_iterator cur(buffer.begin(), buffer.end(), defined_re), end;
>    for(; cur != end; ++cur) { ...
>
> But what I really want to do is perform a new regex search starting
> at the location in the buffer marking the end of the previous
> search.  Is there a way to get the buffer index from the previous
> search so I can start the new search past the previous search?

Okay, seems like you can use:

   smatch const &what = *cur;
   what.position();

to give you the byte offset into the buffer.

-- Noel