Regular expressions in an Objective-C Cocoa application

Asked 2009-01-07T21:18:54.507

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Initial Googling indicates that there's no built-in way to do regular expressions in an Objective-C Cocoa application.

So four questions:

Is that really true?
Are you kidding me?
Ok, then is there a nice open-source library you recommend?
What are ways to get close enough without importing a library, perhaps with the NSScanner class?

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I noticed that as of iOS 4.0 Apple provides a NSRegularExpression class. Additionally, as of 10.7, the class is available under OS X.

answered 2010-08-24T07:56:14.680