Time to switch to a more standard regexp engine ?

[_meta_]

I'll quote from help:

TPerlRegEx is a Delphi VCL wrapper around the open source PCRE library, which implements Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions. PCRE source code, with minor modifications, is included. PCRE was compiled into a DLL with C++Builder 6. By default, the OBJ files are linked directly into your application when using TPerlRegEx, and the DLL is not needed. Remove the definition of NO_PCRE_DLL in the PerlRegEx.pas unit if you prefer to use the DLL.

It's not native VCL, but the regex syntax it supports is very complete.

[majkinetor !]

I'm not aware of any better RegEx library in Delphi. I don't want to use another external dll for now.

AutoHotkey didn't add it as external library but included it is in main exe. I said LoadLibrary just as an example of usage but you can also staticly link it.

[ghisler(Author)]

Sorry, I don't have a Borland C compiler to create a lib which I could link with Delphi. Libs created with MS VC++ 6.0 cannot be linked with Delphi code.

[_meta_]

Obj files are already included here...

http://www.regular-expressions.info/download/TPerlRegEx.zip

[PoV]

Obj files are already included here...

http://www.regular-expressions.info/download/TPerlRegEx.zip

Is it me, or does it look like a very good news in disguise ?

[majkinetor !]

Sorry, I don't have a Borland C compiler to create a lib which I could link with Delphi. Libs created with MS VC++ 6.0 cannot be linked with Delphi code

Hm... can't help here.... never did that... maybe it is possible but I wouldn't know.


But TPerlRegEx sounds like nice solution for this problem. It would be good to use AHK library if possible as it is already extensively tested and I confirm it is very fast and small.

[ghisler(Author)]

I will try it, thanks!

[Raymond]

Just found out that I can't search multibyte like Chinese when searching file or searching in Lister by RegEx.
Is it a bug or just the limit of TC's regex engine?

[ghisler(Author)]

It's probably a limitation of the Regex engine TRegEx, sorry.

[franc]

I vote too for a better RegEx-Library!

franc

[dott]

pcre 7.8 for delphi(OBJ)

[PashkaTLT]

Are we cursed to use the TRegExpr library for the whole life?

It is very limited and contains bugs.

One of the examples:

text:
"INTO
customers"

search string:
"INTO\s+customers"

this regexp should find the text, but in TC it does not.

If the author doesn't want to change this library then maybe it is possible to make a support for regexp plugins so it will be possible to dynamically choose the used regexp engine?

[ghisler(Author)]

This isn't the fault of TRegExpr - it's a limitation of TC that you can only search within lines.