This only applies to question 1.
I have an app that runs on Windows and uses a multi-line MFC editor box.
The editor box expects CRLF linebreaks, but I need to parse the text enterred
with some really big/nasty regexs'.
I didn't want to be stressing about this while writing the regex, so
I ended up normalizing back and forth between the parser and editor so that
the regexs' just use \n
. I also trap paste operations and convert them for the boxes.
This does not take much time.
This is what I use.
boost::regex CRLFCRtoLF (
" \\r\\n | \\r(?!\\n) "
, MODx);
boost::regex CRLFCRtoCRLF (
" \\r\\n?+ | \\n "
, MODx);
// Convert (All style) linebreaks to linefeeds
// ---------------------------------------
void ReplaceCRLFCRtoLF( string& strSrc, string& strDest )
{
strDest = boost::regex_replace ( strSrc, CRLFCRtoLF, "\\n" );
}
// Convert linefeeds to linebreaks (Windows)
// ---------------------------------------
void ReplaceCRLFCRtoCRLF( string& strSrc, string& strDest )
{
strDest = boost::regex_replace ( strSrc, CRLFCRtoCRLF, "\\r\\n" );
}