Re: Finding C++ single inheritance occurrances

I am a little shaky how this regexp works

The regular expression:

(?-imsx:(class|struct)\s+[^:{;]+:[\w<>\s]+{)

matches as follows:

NODE                     EXPLANATION
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(?-imsx:                 group, but do not capture (case-sensitive)
                         (with ^ and $ matching normally) (with . not
                         matching \n) (matching whitespace and #
                         normally):
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  (                        group and capture to \1:
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    class                    'class'
----------------------------------------------------------------------
   |                        OR
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    struct                   'struct'
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  )                        end of \1
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  \s+                      whitespace (\n, \r, \t, \f, and " ") (1 or
                           more times (matching the most amount
                           possible))
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  [^:{;]+                  any character except: ':', '{', ';' (1 or
                           more times (matching the most amount
                           possible))
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  :                        ':'
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  [\w<>\s]+                any character of: word characters (a-z, A-
                           Z, 0-9, _), '<', '>', whitespace (\n, \r,
                           \t, \f, and " ") (1 or more times
                           (matching the most amount possible))
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  {                        '{'
----------------------------------------------------------------------
)                        end of grouping
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Typically, you would provide a LIST to grep, instead of a single scalar.

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Re^2: Finding C++ single inheritance occurrances by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 18, 2011 at 17:36 UTC
Typically, you would provide a LIST to grep, instead of a single scalar. Conversely, if one only has one string to match, one wouldn't use `grep`. `my @matches = $string =~ /(?:class\|struct)\s+[^:{;]+:[\w<>\s]+{/g;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]