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boost::xpressive::skip — Specify which characters to skip when matching a regex.
// In header: <boost/xpressive/regex_primitives.hpp> template<typename Skip> ( skip);
skip()
instructs the regex engine to skip certain characters when matching a regex. It is most useful for writing regexes that ignore whitespace. For instance, the following specifies a regex that skips whitespace and punctuation:
// A sentence is one or more words separated by whitespace // and punctuation. sregex sregex
The way it works in the above example is to insert keep(*set[_s | punct])
before each primitive within the regex. A "primitive" includes terminals like strings, character sets and nested regexes. A final *set[_s | punct]
is added to the end of the regex. The regex sentence
specified above is equivalent to the following:
sregex
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Skipping does not affect how nested regexes are handled because they are treated atomically. String literals are also treated atomically; that is, no skipping is done within a string literal. So |
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