[Development] Regular expression libraries for QRegExp

Robin Burchell robin+qt at viroteck.net
Wed Nov 23 15:48:41 CET 2011


2011/11/23 Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>:
> We don't even have to mark this one deprecated. If the new engine's API is
> compatible, it could be used for both.

well.... doesn't that depend on how complete you want SC to be?
QRegExp uses different syntax than pretty much every other RE engine,
definitely different from PCRE, and supports different features. So if
people have hardcoded regular expressions, they may function
differently, or not at all.



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