got it, thanks On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Eric Niebler wrote:

Peter Boot wrote:

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Is there functionality included in boost::xpressive::regex_search(...) that would allow you to know which of an alternated group of expressions e.g. "aaa|bbb|ccc" matched a substring in the input ?

Just as with Perl and with Boost.Regex, you could create backreferences and check to see which participated in the match:

"(aaa)|(bbb)|(ccc)"

Then pass a match_results<> object to regex_search and check "what[N].matched" for N=1,2,3 (assuming your match_results<> object was named "what").

If the alternates are all string literals, then you can use an xpressive symbol table instead and discover which alternate matched more efficiently. For that you'd initialize a std::map with your alternates ...

std::map syms; syms["aaa"] = 1; syms["bbb"] = 2; syms["ccc"] = 3; int which = 0;

// Match a symbol, write the corresponding // integer into "which" sregex rx = (a1= syms)[ ref(which) = a1 ];

HTH,

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