regex/regextokeniter1.cpp

The following code example is taken from the book
The C++ Standard Library - A Tutorial and Reference, 2nd Edition
by Nicolai M. Josuttis, Addison Wesley Longman, 2012
Copyright © 2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. and Nicolai M. Josuttis


#include <string>
#include <regex>
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    string data = "<person>\n"
                  " <first>Nico</first>\n"
                  " <last>Josuttis</last>\n"
                  "</person>\n";

    regex reg("<(.*)>(.*)</(\\1)>");

    // iterate over all matches (using a regex_token_iterator):
    sregex_token_iterator pos(data.cbegin(),data.cend(), // sequence
                              reg,                       // token separator
                              {0,2});      // 0: full match, 2: second substring
    sregex_token_iterator end;
    for ( ; pos!=end ; ++pos ) {
        cout << "match:  " << pos->str() << endl;
    }
    cout << endl;

    string names = "nico, jim, helmut, paul, tim, john paul, rita";
    regex sep("[ \t\n]*[,;.][ \t\n]*");  // separated by , ; or . and spaces
    sregex_token_iterator p(names.cbegin(),names.cend(),  // sequence
                            sep,                          // separator
                            -1);        // -1: values between separators
    sregex_token_iterator e;
    for ( ; p!=e ; ++p ) {
        cout << "name:  " << *p << endl;
    }
}