C++ Tutorial => Anchors

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Example

C++ provides only 4 anchors:

^ which asserts the start of the string
$ which asserts the end of the string
\b which asserts a \W character or the beginning or end of the string
\B which asserts a \w character

Let's say for example we want to capture a number with it's sign:

auto input = "+1--12*123/+1234"s;
smatch sm;

if(regex_search(input, sm, regex{ "(?:^|\\b\\W)([+-]?\\d+)" })) {

    do {
        cout << sm[1] << endl;
        input = sm.suffix().str();
    } while(regex_search(input, sm, regex{ "(?:^\\W|\\b\\W)([+-]?\\d+)" }));
}

An important note here is that the anchor does not consume any characters.

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