[re.alg.search] (original) (raw)

28 Text processing library [text]

28.6 Regular expressions library [re]

28.6.10 Regular expression algorithms [re.alg]

28.6.10.3 regex_search [re.alg.search]

template<class BidirectionalIterator, class Allocator, class charT, class traits> bool regex_search(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last, match_results<BidirectionalIterator, Allocator>& m,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Effects: Determines whether there is some sub-sequence within [first, last) that matches the regular expression e.

The parameter flags is used to control how the expression is matched against the character sequence.

Returns true if such a sequence exists, false otherwise.

Postconditions: m.ready() == true in all cases.

If the function returns false, then the effect on parameter m is unspecified except that m.size()returns 0 and m.empty() returns true.

Otherwise the effects on parameter m are given in Table 122.

Table 122 β€” Effects of regex_search algorithm [tab:re.alg.search]

πŸ”—Element Value
πŸ”—m.size() 1 + e.mark_count()
πŸ”—m.empty() false
πŸ”—m.prefix().first first
πŸ”—m.prefix().second m[0].first
πŸ”—m.prefix().matched m.prefix().first != m.prefix().second
πŸ”—m.suffix().first m[0].second
πŸ”—m.suffix().second last
πŸ”—m.suffix().matched m.suffix().first != m.suffix().second
πŸ”—m[0].first The start of the sequence of characters that matched the regular expression
πŸ”—m[0].second The end of the sequence of characters that matched the regular expression
πŸ”—m[0].matched true
πŸ”—m[n].first For all integers 0 < n < m.size(), the start of the sequence that matched sub-expression n. Alternatively, if sub-expression ndid not participate in the match, then last.
πŸ”—m[n].second For all integers 0 < n < m.size(), the end of the sequence that matched sub-expression n. Alternatively, if sub-expression n did not participate in the match, then last.
πŸ”—m[n].matched For all integers 0 < n < m.size(), true if sub-expression nparticipated in the match, false otherwise.

template<class charT, class Allocator, class traits> bool regex_search(const charT* str, match_results<const charT*, Allocator>& m,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Returns: regex_search(str, str + char_traits<charT>​::​length(str), m, e, flags).

template<class ST, class SA, class Allocator, class charT, class traits> bool regex_search(const basic_string<charT, ST, SA>& s, match_results<typename basic_string<charT, ST, SA>::const_iterator, Allocator>& m,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Returns: regex_search(s.begin(), s.end(), m, e, flags).

template<class BidirectionalIterator, class charT, class traits> bool regex_search(BidirectionalIterator first, BidirectionalIterator last,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Effects: Behaves β€œas if” by constructing an object whatof type match_results<BidirectionalIterator> and returningregex_search(first, last, what, e, flags).

template<class charT, class traits> bool regex_search(const charT* str,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Returns: regex_search(str, str + char_traits<charT>​::​length(str), e, flags).

template<class ST, class SA, class charT, class traits> bool regex_search(const basic_string<charT, ST, SA>& s,const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, regex_constants::match_flag_type flags = regex_constants::match_default);

Returns: regex_search(s.begin(), s.end(), e, flags).