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Re: Using regex.h

Subject: Re: Using regex.h
From: Glenn Andreas <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:00:08 -0600

At 11:19 AM +0000 11/26/04, Oliver Cameron wrote:

Hi guys,
I've been told I can use regex.h for powering the regular expression searches in my app. I'm never actually touched pure C code (is regex.h C?), so I've really got no idea how to implement it in a Cocoa based application.

I guess I could use NSTask, but I think that could cause major slowdowns. I also know about the OmniFrameworks and others (MOKit etc.), but I'd rather cook up my own engine if possible. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Oliver

You don't want to use system provided regex from Cocoa because the system regexes don't support unicode (and Cocoa strings do).

Taking the regex from TCL is pretty straightforward (which is what I do in IDEKit, and it works quite well with unicode now).

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