From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-10 05:45:07
> I'd like to tag a question onto the coattails of this one. I haven't
> given
> it much thought, so if there's a terribly obvious reason this wouldn't
> work
> from a theoretical standpoint (or it's already in the implementation),
> please let me down easy. <g> Okay, I know there's no reasonable way to
> parse arbitrarily-nested constructs with regexes, but it's always seemed
> to
> me that it might be almost as useful to be able to extract the number of
> times a captured submatch with one of the repetition operators following
> actually matched. I also can't think of a reason it couldn't be done, off
> the top of my head. Your take?
My take is it's already been done: see the section on repeated captures in
http://www.boost.org/libs/regex/doc/captures.html
Does that answer your question?
John.