I am wondering if it is possible to run directly regular expression over a list and getting the indexes (begging and end) of the match. For example, I have a list of strings and a regular expression and I want to know which part of the list matches the RE and get the corresponding indexes in the list. Any suggestion is welcome. Thank you.
You have two options: 1) Use the partial match option to search each item in the collection in turn, and then "do something" if regex indicates that there may be a match that spans two items in the collection. 2) Write a composite iterator which enumerates single characters over the whole collection of strings and pass that to the regex algorithms, in fact I can't believe we don't have this already in Boost, but it appears not :-( HTH, John.