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Various parts of Cocoa use ICU to do regular expression searching, so it
must be built in; so is there a way I can just use it directly to do a find
or find-and-replace in an NSString? Thx - m.
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On 14 jul 2006, at 19.46, Matt Neuburg wrote:> Various parts of Cocoa use ICU to do regular expression searching,
> so it
> must be built in; so is there a way I can just use it directly to
> do a find
> or find-and-replace in an NSString? Thx - m.
I failed in my attempt to use the ICU library that ships with Mac OS
X: /usr/lib/libicucore.dylib.
It's quite possible that you could make it work even if I couldn't...
There are a bunch of Cocoa regexp facilities available:
OgreKit
AGRexex
MOKit
OFRegularExpression
NSPredicate
You will most likely find one that can provide the functionality
you're looking for.
I didn't find any of them to my liking (various combinations of
problems: not universal, inadequate performance or awkward API), and
so made my own wrapper for PCRE. It's very bare-bones, but you can
have a copy of it if you would want to attempt to extend it.
j o a r -
The regular expression facility in ICU is not currently exposed to
developers for general usage with NSString. If you'd like to see such
a facility, the best thing to do is file a bug.
Deborah Goldsmith
Internationalization, Unicode liaison
Apple Computer, Inc.
<goldsmit...>
On Jul 14, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote:> Various parts of Cocoa use ICU to do regular expression searching,
> so it
> must be built in; so is there a way I can just use it directly to
> do a find
> or find-and-replace in an NSString? Thx - m.
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> matt neuburg, phd = <matt...>, <http://www.tidbits.com/matt/>
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On or about 7/14/06 5:10 PM, thus spake "Deborah Goldsmith"
<goldsmit...>:> The regular expression facility in ICU is not currently exposed to
> developers for general usage with NSString. If you'd like to see such
> a facility, the best thing to do is file a bug.
Well, it's "bug report Friday" anyway, so I guess I'll just have to...! :)
Filed as radar ID 4631933. Thx - m.> On Jul 14, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
>
>> Various parts of Cocoa use ICU to do regular expression searching,
>> so it
>> must be built in; so is there a way I can just use it directly to
>> do a find
>> or find-and-replace in an NSString? Thx - m.
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