MSL by example:Regular Expressions

Regular Expressions

// Generic string matching
string regExpression = "^CLUSTAL W (\\S+)\\s+([\\S\\s]+)$";
string lineToMatch="CLUSTAL W 2.1 multiple sequence alignment";
 
vector<string> results;
 
// Line which should match RegEx
if (MslTools::regex(lineToMatch,regExpression,results)){
 
   cout << "PASS test 1\n"; 
 
   // Print out the matched '()' substrings
   for (uint i = 0; i < results.size();i++){
     cout << "Match["<<i<<"]: "<<results[i]<<endl;
   }
 
} else {
   cerr << "ERROR did not match line properly.\n";
}