Hi! Is it possible access captured group from another scope in the semantic action? Can I write a lazy function somehow and access another scope? The following code results in ”bad_lexical_cast” exception, likely due to the named capture "Year" is an empty string in the "outer scope". const sregex yyyymmdd = (Year=_d>>_d>>_d>>_d) >> (Month= _d>>_d)

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(Day= _d>>_d);

sregex rx = yyyymmdd [ tm_year(t) = as<int>(Year) - 1900 /*, … */ ] // bad lexical cast: source type value could not be interpreted as target >> hhmmss [ tm_hour(t) = as<int>(Hour) /*, …*/ ] ; In my case the regex has no recursion, no captured repeated groups, so I can't understand really why I got nested result set. Dumping the nested result tree indicates that the values are captured in another ”scope”. But this is in the match_result<> set, and I can't figure out if there is any equivalent set available inside the semantic action. 20140119190000 #rx day = hour = minute = month = second = year = 20140119 #yyyymmdd day = 19 hour = minute = month = 01 second = year = 2014 190000 #hhmmss day = hour = 19 minute = 00 month = second = 00 year = I’m asking mostly for educational reason. Thanks for any hints! perrog Code: mark_tag Year(1),Month(2),Day(3),Hour(4),Minute(5),Second(6), Micro(7); const sregex yyyymmdd = (Year=_d>>_d>>_d>>_d) >> (Month= _d>>_d) >> (Day= _d>>_d); const sregex hhmmss = (Hour=_d>>_d)>>(Minute=_d>>_d)>>(Second=_d>>_d); bool is_datetime(std::string const& input) { // …don’t need any semantic actions when validating… smatch ignore; sregex rx = yyyymmdd >> hhmmss; return regex_match(input, ignore, rx); } bool get_datetime(std::string const& input, struct tm *time) { local t(time); function::type tm_year = { &tm::tm_year }; function::type tm_hour = { &tm::tm_hour }; // … sregex rx = yyyymmdd [ tm_year(t) = as<int>(Year) - 1900 /*, … */ ] // bad lexical cast: source type value could not be interpreted as target >> hhmmss [ tm_hour(t) = as<int>(Hour) /*, …*/ ] ; smatch ignore; return regex_match(input, ignore, rx); }