Re: Regular expressions in Cocoa?
Re: Regular expressions in Cocoa?
- Subject: Re: Regular expressions in Cocoa?
- From: Michael Watson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:36:55 -0500
On 25 Jan, 2008, at 08:11, Marc Lohse wrote:
Hello,
I have a general question concerning regular expressions
in cocoa - since apple has not (yet?) implemented support
for regular expressions in cocoa one obviously has to use
third party libraries/frameworks to add regex support to
an application. As there seem to be several possible choices
(e.g. the RegexKit Framework which looks very nice and
seems to provide everything i need) i would like to know
which lib/framework is the generally accepted/recommended one.
RegexKit is popular. OFRegularExpression, inside OmniFoundation, is
also used by many people:
http://www.omnigroup.com/developer/
Aside from this: Is Apple going (eventually, please) to
implement this in Cocoa/Objective-C? Coming from perl
to ObjC1.0, i had hoped that Regex support would be added
to Objective-C 2.0...
Objective-C is designed to be a very thin superset of C. It seems to
me that adding a complex regex system to the language would add
clutter that goes against the design principles of the language. (But
I'm not a language architect, so I could be wrong.)
--
m-s
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