Re: CAtlRegExp kind of hangs with some expressions

From:
"Brian Muth" <bmuth@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:14:02 -0700
Message-ID:
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"Abubakar" <emailallrise@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Hi,
I'm using the following code (using the reg exp you posted) and it keeps
returning me "invalid email", the Match() is not returning true::

 CAtlRegExp<> re;
 TCHAR * atlgroup =
TEXT("\\s*(([\\w\\-]{1,}(\\.{0,}[\\w\\-]{1,}){0,}@[\\w\\-\\.]{0,}\\.[a-z]{2,5})[;,]\\s*)*([\\w\\-]{1,}(\\.{0,}[\\w\\-]{1,}){0,}@[\\w\\-\\.]{0,}\\.[a-z]{2,5})\\s*");
 re.Parse (atlgroup);
 CAtlREMatchContext<> mc;
 if (re.Match (TEXT(abc@gmail.com), &mc))
 {
   cout<<"valid ";
 }
 else
 {
   cout<<"invalid ";
 }

 cout<<"email.";

What am I doing wrong?


Your code fragment is bad, of course.

if (re.Match (TEXT(abc@gmail.com), &mc))

should be

if (re.Match (TEXT(abc@gmail.com), &mc))

Fixing that, and the code works for me.

Brian

..ab

"Brian Muth" <bmuth@mvps.org> wrote in message
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This monster is one of my favourites (warning, when this posts I'm
expecting to break over lines)

\s*(([\w\-]{1,}(\.{0,}[\w\-]{1,}){0,}@[\w\-\.]{0,}\.[a-z]{2,5})[;,]\s*)*([\w\-]{1,}(\.{0,}[\w\-]{1,}){0,}@[\w\-\.]{0,}\.[a-z]{2,5})\s*

It will accept multiple email addresses, separated by either commas or
semicolons.

Brian

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