Re: regexkit [Using NSPredicate to parse strings]
Re: regexkit [Using NSPredicate to parse strings]
- Subject: Re: regexkit [Using NSPredicate to parse strings]
- From: glenn andreas <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:33:23 -0600
On Mar 4, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
On 4 Mar '08, at 3:25 AM, Jonathan Dann wrote:
That is a seriously good framework, and the documentation is great
too.
My only issue with regexkit is that it uses PCRE instead of ICU.
PCRE has to be compiled into the library, making it larger (whereas
ICU is already built into the OS.)
PCRE is also, last I checked, less I18N-savvy than ICU. This has
given me grief in the past; I used PRCE-based regex code in a
project 3 years ago, and as soon as the Japanese and Korean testers
started working with it, they found that the app's text searching
didn't work correctly for them. (In a nutshell, PCRE's notion of
"alphabetic characters" and "word breaks" only works for Roman
writing systems.)
Unfortunately I don't know of a comparable Cocoa regex library that
uses ICU. (NSPredicate does, but its support for regexes is very
limited, as already discussed in this thread.)
Have you seen <http://aarone.org/cocoaicu/>?
I ran across it a while ago, but haven't had a chance to try it out
personally (one should read <http://aarone.org/2006/12/10/libicucore-on-mac-os-x/
> first as well)
Glenn Andreas email@hidden
<http://www.gandreas.com/> wicked fun!
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