Re: Function to search a string in a string in reverse order

From:
Carl Barron <cbarron413@adelphia.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:50:22 CST
Message-ID:
<210620072154346300%cbarron413@adelphia.net>
In article <1182408782.983219.226680@n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
monty <manishgandhi13@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

I came to an scenario where i need a C++ function to search a string
in a string in reverse order.
Problem is like that:
i have a string like "a~!b~!c" . in this string ~! is the seprater
string and i want the values in reverse order. In the application i
can not use the forward search.

So please help me in resolving this.

let me know if you need any other information.

   something like this?
class reverse_tokenizer
{
   class test
   {
      char first;
      char second;
   public:
      test(char a,char b):first(b),second(a){}
      bool operator () (char x,char y) const
      {
         return x == first && y==second;
      }
   };
   
   test is_delimiter;
   std::string::const_reverse_iterator rbegin;
   std::string::const_reverse_iterator rend;
public:
   reverse_tokenizer(const std::string &str,
      char first,char second)
      :is_delimiter(first,second),rbegin(str.rbegin()),
         rend(str.rend()){}
   bool done() const {return rbegin==rend;}
   std::pair
   <
      std::string::const_iterator,
      std::string::const_iterator
   > next()
   {
      std::string::const_reverse_iterator
         it = std::adjacent_find(rbegin,rend,is_delimiter),
         jt,kt;
      jt = it;
      kt = rbegin;
     // if a delimiter was found 'advance' past it.
      if(it!=rend)
      {
         ++it;
         ++it;
      }
      rbegin = it; // rest of string 'begins' here.
   // return pair of const_iterators, representing token found
   // in original order.
      return std::make_pair
         (
            jt.base(),
            kt.base()
         );
   }
};

  reverse_tokenizer tokenizer(str,'~','!');

  while(!tokenizer.done())
   {
      std::pair<...> range = next;
      // found token is in range [range.first,range.second).
      // use it.
   }

longer delimiters requre std::search similiar to above,
one char just needs std::find, both with reverse iterators,
and a similar approach to convert the range of the found token
in original order.

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