Re: Using regex.h

FROM : Glenn Andreas
DATE : Fri Nov 26 23:00:08 2004

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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