hi there,
I am working with a HTML-like text with boost:regex. For example,
the following pattern might occur in my text
<abc efg>
[TAG] <p>EFG</p[/TAG] 12<3>
In this case, I would like to extract everything between [TAG] [/TAG]
and replace [TAG] with <pre>, [/TAG] with </pre>. Meanwhile,
everything outside [TAG][/TAG] should be unchaged except that < is
replaced by < and is replaced by >
In far more complicated case, a nested [TAG] might occur as follow
<abc efg>
[TAG] <p>EF [TAG] eee [/TAG] G</p[/TAG] 12<3>
in this case, the program just tackle the outermost TAG and left the
inside TAG there. I try to implement the program with boost::regex;
however, it seems never succeed in extracing the TAG even for the
simple case. 3 2811
On 12 Mar 2007 13:07:26 -0700 in comp.lang.c++, "MCH" <gm****@21cn.co m>
wrote,
><abc efg>
[TAG] <p>EFG</p[/TAG] 12<3>
In this case, I would like to extract everything between [TAG] [/TAG] and replace [TAG] with <pre>, [/TAG] with </pre>. Meanwhile, everything outside [TAG][/TAG] should be unchaged except that < is replaced by < and is replaced by >
This exceeds what I know how to do with regex. Too much context.
I would do it with std::string, std::find_first _of(),
and a couple of if statements.
Maybe you could pretend you are writing a Perl program and get some help
from the real regex experts over on comp.lang.perl. misc
MCH wrote:
hi there,
I am working with a HTML-like text with boost:regex. For example,
the following pattern might occur in my text
<abc efg>
[TAG] <p>EFG</p[/TAG] 12<3>
In this case, I would like to extract everything between [TAG] [/TAG]
and replace [TAG] with <pre>, [/TAG] with </pre>. Meanwhile,
everything outside [TAG][/TAG] should be unchaged except that < is
replaced by < and is replaced by >
In far more complicated case, a nested [TAG] might occur as follow
<abc efg>
[TAG] <p>EF [TAG] eee [/TAG] G</p[/TAG] 12<3>
in this case, the program just tackle the outermost TAG and left the
inside TAG there. I try to implement the program with boost::regex;
however, it seems never succeed in extracing the TAG even for the
simple case.
try
const boost::regex expression("\[TAG\].*?\[\/TAG\]");
The trick is to use the '?' after .* to turn off greedy pattern match,
instead of matching the last occurance of [/TAG], it will match the
first [/TAG] which may or may not be what you want. It seems your
problem is not so much as boost::regex but utilizing regular expression
pattern match in general. I would recommend you to consult regular
expression documents first and experiment with simpler string pattern
with boost::regex.
Fei
Fei Liu wrote:
MCH wrote:
>hi there, I am working with a HTML-like text with boost:regex. For example, the following pattern might occur in my text
<abc efg> [TAG] <p>EFG</p[/TAG] 12<3>
In this case, I would like to extract everything between [TAG] [/TAG] and replace [TAG] with <pre>, [/TAG] with </pre>. Meanwhile, everything outside [TAG][/TAG] should be unchaged except that < is replaced by < and is replaced by >
In far more complicated case, a nested [TAG] might occur as follow
<abc efg> [TAG] <p>EF [TAG] eee [/TAG] G</p[/TAG] 12<3>
in this case, the program just tackle the outermost TAG and left the inside TAG there. I try to implement the program with boost::regex; however, it seems never succeed in extracing the TAG even for the simple case.
try
const boost::regex expression("\[TAG\].*?\[\/TAG\]");
The trick is to use the '?' after .* to turn off greedy pattern match,
instead of matching the last occurance of [/TAG], it will match the
first [/TAG] which may or may not be what you want.
It's definitely not what's needed, since it will match the [TAG] of
the outer block to the [/TAG] of the inner block. See the "far more
complicated case" above.
It seems your
problem is not so much as boost::regex but utilizing regular expression
pattern match in general. I would recommend you to consult regular
expression documents first and experiment with simpler string pattern
with boost::regex.
Right. Regular expressions don't deal well with recursive patterns.
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