From ce4a32fe52ef09d8f5ff1dd22c001110902b60a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: toma Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:56:58 +0000 Subject: Copy the KDE 3.5 branch to branches/trinity for new KDE 3.5 features. BUG:215923 git-svn-id: svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/trinity/kdelibs@1054174 283d02a7-25f6-0310-bc7c-ecb5cbfe19da --- kdecore/kregexp.h | 129 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 129 insertions(+) create mode 100644 kdecore/kregexp.h (limited to 'kdecore/kregexp.h') diff --git a/kdecore/kregexp.h b/kdecore/kregexp.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000..74489fa3f --- /dev/null +++ b/kdecore/kregexp.h @@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ +/* This file is part of the KDE libraries + Copyright (c) 1999 Torben Weis + + This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or + modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public + License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. + + This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, + but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of + MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU + Library General Public License for more details. + + You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License + along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to + the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, + Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. +*/ +#ifndef __kregexp_h__ +#define __kregexp_h__ + +#include "kdelibs_export.h" + +class KRegExpPrivate; + +/** + * @deprecated + * Please use QRegExp instead. + * + * Regular expression (regexp) matching with back-references. + * + * This was implemented + * because QRegExp did not support back-references. It now does and + * is recommended over KRegExp because of the unicode support and the + * more powerful API. + * + * Back-references are parts of a regexp grouped with parentheses. If a + * string matches the regexp, you can access the text that matched each + * group with the group method. This is similar to regular expressions + * in Perl. + * + * Example: + * \code + * KRegExp ex( "([A-Za-z]+) (.+)" ); + * ex.match( "42 Torben Weis" ); + * kdDebug() << ex.group(0) << endl; + * kdDebug() << ex.group(1) << endl; + * kdDebug() << ex.group(2) << endl; + * \endcode + * Output: + * \code + * Torben Weis + * Torben + * Weis + * \endcode + * + * Please notice that KRegExp does @em not support unicode. + * + * @author Torben Weis + */ +class KDECORE_EXPORT KDE_DEPRECATED KRegExp +{ +public: + + /** + * Creates a KRegExp object without a default pattern. + */ + KRegExp(); + + /** + * Creates a KRegExp object. + * @param _pattern The regular expression to use for matches. + * @param _mode If this is "i", case-insensitive matches will be + * performed. + */ + KRegExp( const char *_pattern, const char *_mode = "" ); + ~KRegExp(); + + /** + * Prepare a regular expression for subsequent matches. + * @param _pattern The regular expression to use for matches. + * @param _mode If this is "i", case-insensitive matches will be + * performed. + * @return bool if successful. + */ + bool compile( const char *_pattern, const char *_mode = "" ); + + /** + * Match a string to the last supplied regexp. + * @param _string the string to match + * @return @p true on match, false otherwise. + */ + bool match( const char *_string ); + + + /** + * Returns a group from the match. + * + * @param _grp May be in the range [0..9]. If @p _grp is 0 then the complete + * matched string is returned. + * @return a grouped substring. A substring may be empty. + * In this case 0 is returned. Otherwise you may @em not + * delete or modify the returned value. In addition the + * returned value becomes invalid after the KRegExp instance + * is deleted or after match() was called again. + */ + const char *group( int _grp ); + + /** + * The offset of the given group in the string. + * @param _grp May be in the range [0..9]. If @p _grp is 0 then the start offset + * of the complete matched string is returned. + * @return The start offset of the grouped substring. + */ + int groupStart( int _grp ); + /** + * The offset of the given group's end in the string. + * @param _grp May be in the range [0..9]. If @p _grp is 0 then the end offset + * of the complete matched string is returned. + * @return The end offset of the grouped substring. The "end offset" is the first + * character after the string. + */ + int groupEnd( int _grp ); + +private: + KRegExpPrivate *m_pPrivate; +}; + + +#endif -- cgit v1.2.1