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tdelibs/tdecore/kregexp.h

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/* This file is part of the KDE libraries
Copyright (c) 1999 Torben Weis <weis@kde.org>
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 TQRegExp instead.
*
* Regular expression (regexp) matching with back-references.
*
* This was implemented
* because TQRegExp did not support back-references. It now does and
* is recommended over KRegExp because of the tqunicode 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 tqunicode.
*
* @author Torben Weis <weis@kde.org>
*/
class TDECORE_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