Re: [Boost-users] [regex] Can boost_regex handle overlapping matches

Chandan Nilange wrote:

Hello,

Can boost_regex handle overlapping matches.

e.g RegularExpression=> "12345678901\\d" String=> "12345678901123456789012"

Should generate following 2 Matches: 1st Matching Pattern:123456789011 Pattern starts at :0 Pattern ends at: 11 Pattern length:12 2nd Matching Pattern:123456789012 Pattern starts at :11 Pattern ends at: 22 Pattern length:12

I know, the documention talks only about non-overlapping matches. Just want to know if overlapping-matches support is likely to be added to boost_regex.

It's not explicitly handled, but it's more or less trivial to use regex_search to repeatedly search for overlapping matches. John.