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Plus Parser (+a)
Description

The plus operator, +a, is a unary operator that matches its operand one or more times.

Header
// forwards to <boost/spirit/home/qi/operator/plus.hpp>
#include <boost/spirit/include/qi_plus.hpp>

Also, see Include Structure.

Model of

UnaryParser

Notation

a

A Parser

Expression Semantics

Semantics of an expression is defined only where it differs from, or is not defined in UnaryParser.

Expression

Semantics

+a

Match a one or more times.

Attributes

See Compound Attribute Notation.

Expression

Attribute

+a

a: A --> +a: vector<A>
a: Unused --> +a: Unused

Complexity

The overall complexity of the Plus is defined by the complexity of its subject, a, multiplied by the number of repetitions. The complexity of the Plus itself is O(N), where N is the number successful repetitions.

Example
[Note] Note

The test harness for the example(s) below is presented in the Basics Examples section.

Some using declarations:

using boost::spirit::ascii::alpha;
using boost::spirit::qi::lexeme;

Parse one or more strings containing one or more alphabetic characters and put them in a vector:

std::vector<std::string> attr;
test_phrase_parser_attr("yaba daba doo", +lexeme[+alpha], attr);
std::cout << attr[0] << ',' << attr[1] << ',' << attr[2] << std::endl;


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