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Lightweight Objective-C Regular Expressions for Mac OS X using the ICU Library

RegexKitLite enables easy access to regular expressions by providing a number of additions to the standard Foundation NSString class. RegexKitLite acts as a bridge between the NSString class and the regular expression engine in the International Components for Unicode, or ICU, dynamic shared library that is shipped with Mac OS X.

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How to check if string matches a regular expression in objective-c?

since regular exressions are not supported in Cocoa I find RegexKitLite very usefull. But all examples extract matching strings. I just want to test if a string matches a regular expression and get a Yes or No. How can I do that?
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How to migrate from OSSpinLock to os_unfair_lock()?

As of macOS 10.12, OSSpinLock has been deprecated. The XCode error messages urge me to use os_unfair_lock_unlock() instead. As a legacy of some open source stuff I'm relying on, I'm using RegexKitLite from 2010. How can I convert the spin lock…
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How do I escape special characters in an NSString using RegexKitLite?

I'm constructing a regular expression that uses strings input by the user but the strings might contain special characters such as . \ or * and I want those to be treated as literals and not interpreted by their special meanings in the regex. I've…
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The best regex to parse Twitter #hashtags and @users

Here is what I quickly came up with. It works with regexKitLite on the iPhone: #define kUserRegex @"((?:@){1}[0-9a-zA-Z_]{1,15})"; Twitter only allows letters/numbers, underscores _, and a max of 15 chars (without @). My regex seems fine but…
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iPhone - Reg Exp for url validity

I have a chat view, where users can send urls to one another. In case of a url, I want to let the user press on the link and open a web view. I'm using IFTweetLabel which uses RegexKitLite. Currently the only support available is if the url starts…
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Regex issue using ICU regex to find numbers not inside parentheses

I'm trying to scan a given string for a number. The number cannot be after "v/v./vol/vol.", and cannot be inside parentheses. Here's what I have: NSString *regex = @"(?i)(?
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RegexKitLite not matching square brackets

I'm trying to match usernames from a file. It's kind of like this: username=asd123 password123 and so on. I'm using the regular expression: username=(.*) password To get the username. But it doesn't match if the username would be say and[ers] or…
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RegexKitLite Runtime Crash

I'm overlaying the mapview and using RegexKitLite. I couldn't make it work. I've downloaded .m and .h files and added to the project. Also I tried, adding libicucore.dylib or libicucore.A.dlib or adding -licucore to other compiler flags field. Still…
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RegexKit and RegexKitLite with Xcode 4 gets "Semantic Issue" errors/warnings

I am using Xcode 4.3 on Mac OS X 10.7.3. Base SDK and Deployment is OS X 10.6. When I use RegexKitLite, I get lots of compiler warnings: 'Semantic Issue' Passing 'void *volatile __strong *' to parameter of type 'void *__strong *' discards…
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Regard Regex and pattern compilation in java

Please give me the code in regex for password validation in java which should consist of one Caps character,one integer ,one following symbols( @,#,$,%,^,&,+,=) and small characters. I have been trying this with different separate regular…
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RegexKitLite problem with start of string

I'm trying to replace a character NOT AT THE START OF THE STRING, with itself followed by another character, using regexKitLite. thisPlate = [sBasePlate stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfRegex:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"([^\\^]%@)",…
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RegexKitLite: Match Expression --> Match anything except ] --> Match ]

I am essentially attempting to replace all of the footnotes in a large text. There are various reasons I am doing this in Objective-C, so please assume that constraint. Every footnote beings with this: [Footnote Every footnote ends with this:…
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Match everything that isn't a number followed by a letter

Apologies if this was answered elsewhere -- I did some searching and couldn't find the answer. Suppose I have a text file that contains a bunch of content. In that content is an occupation code, which is always in the format of a number followed by…
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How to use regex to retrieve the content of attribute tag in iPhone?

I am new to iPhone development. I am using RegexkitLite framework to parse and retrieve the particular content from the Html source. I want to retrieve the content in the attribute tag. How should I give regex to achieve it? The Tag is
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How to set a single header file as C++ compiler in Xcode?

There are some C++ files in my Objective-C project. In order to use STL in header files, I set the project setting to compile source as Objective-C++ in "Build Setting". But now, I want to use RegexKitLite in my project. I found out RegexKitLite…
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