[int69h]

Anyone know where I can find something to work with regular expressions and NSStrings? I don't need to apply transformations, just search. I'm surprised Apple still hasn't provided us w/ this.

Thanks in advance.

[aladdinsane]

Originally posted by int69h:
Anyone know where I can find something to work with regular expressions and NSStrings? I don't need to apply transformations, just search. I'm surprised Apple still hasn't provided us w/ this.

Thanks in advance.

I happened to see this the other day. Check the first item on the list.

CocoaDev

I have not checked this out, just remembered it when I saw your post.

Good luck

[smeger]

Try 'man 3 regex'. The man page is pretty cryptic, but they're easy to use once you figure out what's going on.

[Rickster]

The OmniFoundation open-source framework includes an NSString-based regex utility, OFRegularExpression, which is pretty easy to use. You can see examples how to use it in the OmniAppKit framework, where we use it to enable regex-based searching in all our apps.

[int69h]

Try 'man 3 regex'.

Doh! I knew recommending people learn things from man pages was going to come back and haunt me.

I was already familiar with the regex functions and had already discounted using them. I guess I should have mentioned that.

Thanks for the advice everyone.