Re: Qi parse retval vs iterators

On 04-12-17 23:09, Michael Powell wrote:
> I should think that if there were any remaining input that would be a
> failure to match?

You shouldn't. PEG grammars are left-to-right greedy. This is documented.

I've said this before:

On 30-11-17 00:40, Seth wrote:
> Bonus tip: consider adding `>> qi::eoi` at the end of the parse
> expression so you don't need to check whether all of the input has been
> consumed (it must).

And also this warning about partially matching:

On 27-11-17 13:51, Seth wrote:
>
> A more complete example:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47243884/boost-spirit-qi-validating-input-parser/47244585#47244585
>
> Which makes the point that you might want to `lexeme [
> uint_parser<uint16_t, 10, 2, 5>() >> !(digit|'.') ]` to avoid
> partially matching longer numbers.
>


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