Re: [Boost-users] What's wrong in regular expression

Игорь Микушкин wrote:

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Hello!

I wrote the regular expression: ^\s*(?:([A-Za-z_]*)\s*=\s*([A-Za-z0-9_/\.]*)\s*)*$

for splitting lines like: name = abc value1 = def value2 = ghi

I need the result like: match [1] = name match [2] = abc ... match [6] = ghi

But I get ! : match [1] = value2 match [2] = ghi (the last 2 matches)

What is wrong in my expression?

This is normal regular expression behaviour, please see http://www.boost.org/libs/regex/doc/captures.html for an explanation, and possible solution. John.