[Solved] QRegExp for a repeated pattern?

[Ailurus]

Does QRegExp support matching of repeated patterns? Let's consider a sequence of integers (some of which could be negative), separated by either a comma or a space. For example, 4,6,-28,10.

The QRegExp for an optional minus, 1+ digits and a separator (comma or space) would be

QRegExp pattern("-?[0-9]+[,\\s]");

So I'd expect

QRegExp repeatedPattern("[-?[0-9]+[,\\s]]*");

to be the version for the repeated pattern described above. I know nested regular expressions can be ambiguous, but in this case it is not.

To provide some context — I'm trying to constrain the input for a QLineEdit, using

ui->lineEdit->setValidator(new QRegExpValidator(pattern));

[SGaist]

Hi,

Unless you're using Qt 4, you should change to QRegularExpression then:

ui->lineEdit->setValidator(new QRegularExpressionValidator(QRegularExpression("(-?\\d+[,\\s])+")));

should do what you want.

Hope it helps

[Ailurus]

Excellent! Thanks.

[SGaist]

You're welcome !

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