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#ifndef __kregexp_h__ #define __kregexp_h__ class KRegExpPrivate; /** * Regular expression (regexp) matching with back-references. * * This was implemented * because @ref QRegExp does not support back-references. * * 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 @ref group method. This is similar to regular expressions in Perl. * * Example: * <pre> * KRegExp ex( "([A-Za-z]+) (.+)" ); * ex.match( "42 Torben Weis" ); * qDebug( ex.group(0) ); * qDebug( ex.group(1) ); * qDebug( ex.group(2) ); * </pre> * Output: * <pre> * Torben Weis * Torben * Weis * </pre> * * Please notice that @ref KRegExp does @bf not support unicode. * * @author Torben Weis <weis@kde.org> * @version $Id: kregexp.h,v 1.5 2000/01/12 03:05:12 dsweet Exp $ */ class KRegExp { public: /** * Create a @ref KRegExp object without a default pattern. */ KRegExp(); /** * Create a @ref 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. */ bool compile( const char *_pattern, const char *_mode = "" ); /** * Match a string to the last supplied regexp. * @return @p true on match, false otherwise. */ bool match( const char *_string ); /** * @return a grouped substring. A substring may be empty. * In this case 0 is returned. Otherwise you may @bf not * delete or modify the returned value. In addition the * returned value becomes invalid after the @ref KRegExp instance * is deleted or after @ref @match() was called again. * * @param _grp May be in the range [0..9]. If @p _grp is 0 then the complete * matched string is returned. */ const char *group( int _grp ); /** * @return The start offset of the grouped substring. * * @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. */ int groupStart( int _grp ); /** * @return The end offset of the grouped substring. The "end offset" is the first * character after 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. */ int groupEnd( int _grp ); protected: KRegExpPrivate *m_pPrivate; }; #endif
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