"Dave Jenkins" <david@jenkins.net> wrote in message news:fi7d0e$60a$1@ger.gmane.org...
Oh, I see. How about something like this? It allows you to selectively skip spaces for parts of your regex.
I was thinking about the "selective filter iterator" example that I posted and realized that it won't handle xpressive backtracking properly. You can see it malfunction if you change the regex to: regex_skip rx = normal >> as_xpr("a a") >> skip_spaces >> as_xpr("bb") >> *as_xpr('c') >> // This causes the regex to fail when it should succeed normal >> "c c"; The "selective filter iterator" idea is right, it's just the iterator needs to remember when to skip spaces as it backtracks. I'll post another (hopefully correct) example when I've thought about it a bit.