Boost C++ Libraries

Description

xpressive::let() serves the same purpose as match_results::let(); that is, it binds a placeholder to a local value. The purpose is to allow a regex with semantic actions to be defined that refers to objects that do not yet exist. Rather than referring directly to an object, a semantic action can refer to a placeholder, and the value of the placeholder can be specified later with a let expression. The let expression created with let() is passed to the constructor of either regex_iterator or regex_token_iterator.

See the section "Referring to Non-Local Variables" in the Users' Guide for more discussion.

Example:

// Define a placeholder for a map object:
placeholder<std::map<std::string, int> > _map;

// Match a word and an integer, separated by =>,
// and then stuff the result into a std::map<>
sregex pair = ( (s1= +_w) >> "=>" >> (s2= +_d) )
    [ _map[s1] = as<int>(s2) ];

// The string to parse
std::string str("aaa=>1 bbb=>23 ccc=>456");

// Here is the actual map to fill in:
std::map<std::string, int> result;

// Create a regex_iterator to find all the matches
sregex_iterator it(str.begin(), str.end(), pair, let(_map=result));
sregex_iterator end;

// step through all the matches, and fill in
// the result map
while(it != end)
    ++it;

std::cout << result["aaa"] << '\n';
std::cout << result["bbb"] << '\n';
std::cout << result["ccc"] << '\n';

The above code displays:

1
23
456