@CJha That is great. I might be forgetting, but I don't think ~ or # are actually regular expression special characters. However, the escape() method may replace every punctuation character with \-character (including non-ASCII characters like copyright) because that never does any harm/is allowed on any punctuation character. Or it might be enough to let * go to \* and then revert any \*s to plain *s (actually .* in your case).

@Christian-Ehrlicher oh ok haha :D Thanks for reminding me tho

You could write a wrapper that returns tuples and use tie to place in separate vars: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-return-multiple-values-from-a-function-in-c-or-cpp/ Scroll to the tuple example. Yes Python has some nice things. I would really love comprehensions in C++.

Never mind. QRegularExpression::escape() does exactly what I want.

@panosk I suggest trying out in code first, and if everything goes smoothly, then yes you can replace the codepoints in your file. Good luck!

You are probably right. I have added a report on JIRA

@Endar I hope this will help you QRegExpValidator* validator = new QRegExpValidator(QRegExp("[A-a-Z-z][A-a-Z-z]\\d{0,2}\\d[A-a-Z-z][A-a-Z-z]")); ui->lineEdit->setValidator(validator);

Hi and welcome do devnet, found some issues in your regexp DATE:(\\\d{1,2}):(\\\d) should be DATE:(\\\d{1,2}):(\\\d{2}) (\\\d{1,2})\\/(\\\d)\\/(\\\d{2,4}) should be (\\\d{1,2})\\/(\\\d{1,2})\\/(\\\d{2,4}) in your regexp SEND-ID follows AUTH but in your string is not true BTW a simple solution to make debug easier could be to split the string in lines and process a line at time