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+/*
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 1998-2002
+ * John Maddock
+ *
+ * Use, modification and distribution are subject to the 
+ * Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file 
+ * LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
+ *
+ */
+
+ /*
+  *   LOCATION:    see http://www.boost.org for most recent version.
+  *   FILE         regex_grep.hpp
+  *   VERSION      see <ndnboost/version.hpp>
+  *   DESCRIPTION: Provides regex_grep implementation.
+  */
+
+#ifndef NDNBOOST_REGEX_V4_REGEX_GREP_HPP
+#define NDNBOOST_REGEX_V4_REGEX_GREP_HPP
+
+
+namespace ndnboost{
+
+#ifdef NDNBOOST_MSVC
+#pragma warning(push)
+#pragma warning(disable: 4103)
+#endif
+#ifdef NDNBOOST_HAS_ABI_HEADERS
+#  include NDNBOOST_ABI_PREFIX
+#endif
+#ifdef NDNBOOST_MSVC
+#pragma warning(pop)
+#endif
+
+//
+// regex_grep:
+// find all non-overlapping matches within the sequence first last:
+//
+template <class Predicate, class BidiIterator, class charT, class traits>
+inline unsigned int regex_grep(Predicate foo, 
+                               BidiIterator first, 
+                               BidiIterator last, 
+                               const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, 
+                               match_flag_type flags = match_default)
+{
+   if(e.flags() & regex_constants::failbit)
+      return false;
+
+   typedef typename match_results<BidiIterator>::allocator_type match_allocator_type;
+
+   match_results<BidiIterator> m;
+   re_detail::perl_matcher<BidiIterator, match_allocator_type, traits> matcher(first, last, m, e, flags, first);
+   unsigned int count = 0;
+   while(matcher.find())
+   {
+      ++count;
+      if(0 == foo(m))
+         return count; // caller doesn't want to go on
+      if(m[0].second == last)
+         return count; // we've reached the end, don't try and find an extra null match.
+      if(m.length() == 0)
+      {
+         if(m[0].second == last)
+            return count;
+         // we found a NULL-match, now try to find
+         // a non-NULL one at the same position:
+         match_results<BidiIterator, match_allocator_type> m2(m);
+         matcher.setf(match_not_null | match_continuous);
+         if(matcher.find())
+         {
+            ++count;
+            if(0 == foo(m))
+               return count;
+         }
+         else
+         {
+            // reset match back to where it was:
+            m = m2;
+         }
+         matcher.unsetf((match_not_null | match_continuous) & ~flags);
+      }
+   }
+   return count;
+}
+
+//
+// regex_grep convenience interfaces:
+#ifndef NDNBOOST_NO_FUNCTION_TEMPLATE_ORDERING
+//
+// this isn't really a partial specialisation, but template function
+// overloading - if the compiler doesn't support partial specialisation
+// then it really won't support this either:
+template <class Predicate, class charT, class traits>
+inline unsigned int regex_grep(Predicate foo, const charT* str, 
+                        const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, 
+                        match_flag_type flags = match_default)
+{
+   return regex_grep(foo, str, str + traits::length(str), e, flags);
+}
+
+template <class Predicate, class ST, class SA, class charT, class traits>
+inline unsigned int regex_grep(Predicate foo, const std::basic_string<charT, ST, SA>& s, 
+                 const basic_regex<charT, traits>& e, 
+                 match_flag_type flags = match_default)
+{
+   return regex_grep(foo, s.begin(), s.end(), e, flags);
+}
+#else  // partial specialisation
+inline unsigned int regex_grep(bool (*foo)(const cmatch&), const char* str, 
+                        const regex& e, 
+                        match_flag_type flags = match_default)
+{
+   return regex_grep(foo, str, str + regex::traits_type::length(str), e, flags);
+}
+#ifndef NDNBOOST_NO_WREGEX
+inline unsigned int regex_grep(bool (*foo)(const wcmatch&), const wchar_t* str, 
+                        const wregex& e, 
+                        match_flag_type flags = match_default)
+{
+   return regex_grep(foo, str, str + wregex::traits_type::length(str), e, flags);
+}
+#endif
+inline unsigned int regex_grep(bool (*foo)(const match_results<std::string::const_iterator>&), const std::string& s,
+                        const regex& e, 
+                        match_flag_type flags = match_default)
+{
+   return regex_grep(foo, s.begin(), s.end(), e, flags);
+}
+#if !defined(NDNBOOST_NO_WREGEX)
+inline unsigned int regex_grep(bool (*foo)(const match_results<std::basic_string<wchar_t>::const_iterator>&), 
+                     const std::basic_string<wchar_t>& s, 
+                        const wregex& e, 
+                        match_flag_type flags = match_default)
+{
+   return regex_grep(foo, s.begin(), s.end(), e, flags);
+}
+#endif
+#endif
+
+#ifdef NDNBOOST_MSVC
+#pragma warning(push)
+#pragma warning(disable: 4103)
+#endif
+#ifdef NDNBOOST_HAS_ABI_HEADERS
+#  include NDNBOOST_ABI_SUFFIX
+#endif
+#ifdef NDNBOOST_MSVC
+#pragma warning(pop)
+#endif
+
+} // namespace ndnboost
+
+#endif  // NDNBOOST_REGEX_V4_REGEX_GREP_HPP
+