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Old 01-26-2009
Java File Pattern Matching C++

Hi,

I have large files with fixed length fields or fields seperated by delimeter. I would like to do validation on some or all fields to check for numeric or date or characters etc.. I would like to write this in C++. Please let me know if any one have any ideas on this.

Thanks for all replies.
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Old 01-28-2009
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Old 01-29-2009
Thanks for that link, confucius.

Ramesh,

If you're on UNIX, then use the POSIX or GNU regexp library (man regex) or the Perl libpcre (man pcre). Just in case you're programming in Windows, the site confucious mentioned has this link for you. Using Regular Expressions with .NET - C# and Visual Basic
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