Hi All,
RegexKitLite looks promising. It claims to only require you to add
the .h and .m file to your project and link to the libicucore.dylib
library.
I managed to incorporate RegexKitLite fairly easily once I found in
the documentation the steps to link to the libicucore.dylib library.
Thanks for all your comments about ICU vs PCRE. I've thrown a couple
of fairly involved regexes at it that I've previously used in Perl
(therefore PCRE) and haven't had to make any adjustments at all.
I've wrapped it in a test Cocoa app that shows capture in an outline
view, with each group showing as a child item of its capture. It's
working very well so far. The essence of my use of RegexKitLite here is:
- (IBAction)update:(id)sender
{
NSString * regexString = [regexField string];
NSString * inputString = [inputField string];
[outputArray release]; // already defined as an instance variable in
the .h file
NSError * myError = nil;
NSRange myRange = NSMakeRange(0, [inputString length]);
outputArray = [inputString
arrayOfCaptureComponentsMatchedByRegex:regexString
options:RKLNoOptions range:myRange error:&myError];
[outputArray retain];
[outputOutline reloadData];
}
@end
I'm new to Cocoa and Objective-C. So please tell me gently of any
glaring errors above
Now to use it in my real project, I need to port over my routines that
parsed SQL statements. I have been doing this by:
1. Using regex to replace quoted items (eg bounded by " or ' or a
comment bounded by /* */ or -- \n) with placeholders.
2. Using regex to parse the SQL (now containing placeholders) into
desired SQL components
3. Replacing placeholders with original text.
Before I go ahead and port this same method across, is there any built
in functionality in Cocoa that will facilitate this (or part of it)
directly?
Thanks,
Tom
BareFeet
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