Re: "recursive" regex match?

[Egon Andersen <post talura dk>]

Petr Tomasek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I tried to make a "recursive" regexp using the g_regexp_* functions,
> i.e. something like:
>
>  regex = g_regex_new ("^\\s*(?:(shift|ctrl|alt)-)*([a-z])\\s*$", G_REGEX_CASELESS|G_REGEX_OPTIMIZE, 0, NULL);
>
> But when doing g_regex_match() together with g_match_info_fetch_all() I only get the
> first occurence of the string matche by "(...)*". In PCRE / php, for example, such a
> regex is matched recursivelly (i.e. the number of matched substring is dependent on the 
> matched string). Can something like this be done in glib or is this feature missing?

Try to have a look at g_match_info_next.

Best regards
Egon Andersen