Re: Regular Expressions?

FROM : Jens Alfke
DATE : Fri Jun 06 23:29:39 2008

On 6 Jun '08, at 8:13 AM, glenn andreas wrote:

> One other possible solution is to use the JavaScriptCore and make a 
> JSStringRef (which works with unichars like NSString), and use 
> JavaScript's regex support - that way the results will at least have 
> consistent indices, work well with non-ASCII characters, etc...


JavaScriptCore is just using PCRE*. That basically supports Unicode, 
but I have had problems in the past with non-Roman text in JS regular 
expressions (particularly with word breaks in Japanese text). I think 
ICU is a better bet.

—Jens

* and until a month or two ago it was a very ancient version of PCRE, 
with prominent security holes; that's how that guy won a MacBook Pro 
in the "Pwn2Own" contest.