QRegExp and character classes

[giesbert]

Hi there,

I am looking for an equivalent of the boost regexp:

@
"^[[:alpha:]][[:alnum:]_\-]*$"
@

with QRegExp.

If I remember correctly, :alpha: is all alphabetic characters, not only latin1 characters.
So [a-zA-Z] would be different to :alpha: :-(
Any Ideas?

Does anyone knows if the POSIX Unicode syntax works in Qt:

http://www.regular-expressions.info/posixbrackets.html

[SGaist]

Hi,

AFAIK (I may be wrong though) not with QRegExp (I've tested it a long time ago and looked at QRegExp sources but didn't find anything).

But if you can go with QRegularExpression then you should be good

[giesbert]

A damn, I knew there was something new in Qt5...
Thanks for the hint.
I will go with that one.

[SGaist]

You're welcome !

Happy regexp coding ! :)