Regular expression to match C's multiline preprocessor statements

Question

what I need is to match multiline preprocessor's statements such as:

#define max(a,b) \
       ({ typeof (a) _a = (a); \
           typeof (b) _b = (b); \
         _a > _b ? _a : _b; })

The point is to match everything between #define and last }), but I still can't figure out how to write the regexp. I need it to make it work in Python, using "re" module.

Could somebody help me please?

Thanks

Answer 1

This should do it:

r'(?m)^#define (?:.*\\\r?\n)*.*$'

(?:.*\\\r?\n)* matches zero or more lines ending with backslashes, then .*$ matches the final line.