Boost Regex unknown number of var

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I have an issue with a regex expression and need some help. I have some expressions like these in mein .txt File:

19 = NAND (1, 19)

regex expression : http://rubular.com/r/U8rO09bvTO

With this regex expression I got seperated matches for the numbers. But now I need a regex expression with an unknown amount of numbers in the bracket.

For example:

19 = NAND (1, 23, 13, 24)

match1: 19, match2: 1, match3: 23, match4: 13, match5: 24

I don't know the number of the numbers. So I need a main expression for min 2 numbers in the bracket till a unknow number.

By the way i'm using c++. @ Martjin Your first regex expression worked very well thanks. Here my code:

    boost::cmatch result;
    boost::regex matchNand ("([0-9]*) = NAND\\((.*?)\\)");
    boost::regex matchNumb ("(\\d+)");
    string cstring = "19 = NAND (1, 23, 13, 24)";
    boost::regex_search(cstring.c_str(), result, matchNand);
    cout << "NAND: " << result[1] << "=" << result[2] << endl;
    string str = result[2];
    boost::regex_search(str.c_str(), result, matchNumb);
    cout << "NUM: " << result[1] << "," << result[2]<< "," << result[3] << "," << result[4] << endl;

My output: NAND: 19=1, 23, 13, 24 NUM: 1,,,

So my new problem is i only find the first number. The result is also in complete opposite with this solution: http://rubular.com/r/nqXDSuBXjc

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 15 '12 at 01:40

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A simple (and maybe more clear than one regex) is to split this into two regexes.

First run a regex that splits your result from your arguments: http://rubular.com/r/YkGdkkg4y3

([0-9]*) = NAND \((.*?)\)

Then perform a regex that will match all the numbers in your argument: http://rubular.com/r/2vpSbZvz12

\d+

Assuming you're using Ruby, you can perform a regex that matches multiple times with the function scan as explained here: http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/String.html#method-i-scan

Of course you could just use the second regex with the scan function to get all the numbers from that line, but I'm guessing you're going to expand it even more, which is when this approach will be a little more structured.

answered Dec 15 '12 at 01:40

Martijn Hoogesteger

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thanks for the help now i have a new problem you can see it above – Katrin Thielmann Dec 15 '12 at 13:19
I'm not well versed in c++, but here's maybe some help: The function regex_search seems to only search for the regex once, and it will store every group `(..)` in the result array. Since our regex only has one group, it will only populate `result[0]`. How to get multiple matches was described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3122344/boost-c-regex-how-to-get-multiple-matches – Martijn Hoogesteger Dec 15 '12 at 14:55
I see now that the documentation also has an example on how to perform multiple matches, at the examples section: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_52_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/ref/regex_search.html – Martijn Hoogesteger Dec 15 '12 at 14:57

Boost Regex unknown number of var

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