[Development] Regular expression libraries for QRegExp (what about "tre")

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Sun Dec 4 06:00:26 CET 2011


On Saturday, 3 de December de 2011 23.39.57, Francesco Riosa wrote:
> reading these two blogs:
> http://blog.rburchell.com/2011/12/why-i-avoid-qregexp-in-qt-4-and-so.html
> http://blogs.kde.org/node/4510 (Regexp library benchmarks...)
> 
> I've learned of the TRE library (http://laurikari.net/tre/about/) it
> has interesting functionality like fuzzy matching and seem to have all
> what you need except for named matches (?name: bla bla)
> 
> I've tryed to compile it and it's very small.
> 
> Licensed "As is"
> 
> what does it miss for be elected in qt5 inclusion?

Two things:

1) a fully-compatible syntax to PCRE or JS, with equal or better performance 
than existing engines

2) a healthy developer community behind it to ensure that it will continue to 
be supported

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