Hi,
It looks like in FPC trunk that regular expressions use unicode properties and is returning unicode results as it is now built, because {$DEFINE Unicode} is now defined in the regexpr unit.
The problem is I can't get it to return the same results as with FPC 3.2.0, even with type casting. The following program tests combinations of literal and string/unicodestring expressions and matches and shows the differences in results produced by FPC 3.2.2 and 3.3.1, shown below the code.
With a literal expression and a string search parameter, the trunk version doesn't find a match.
<code>
unit Unit1;
{$mode objfpc}{$H+}{$Macro on}
interface
uses
Classes, SysUtils, Forms, Controls, Graphics, Dialogs, StdCtrls,
RegExpr;
type
TForm1 = class(TForm)
Memo1: TMemo;
procedure FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
private
public
end;
var
Form1: TForm1;
R: TRegExpr;
implementation
{$R *.lfm}
// Macro used instead of const, to ensure literal will be used
{$define LIT_EXPR := '(?i)(\+\/\-|±)\d{1,3}(\.\d+)?(°|\s+deg)'}
{$define LIT_SRCH := 'The range is ±90.0° '}
procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
const
FOUND = ' Matches found:';
NOT_FOUND = ' No match found';
var
R: TRegExpr;
expr, srch, match: string;
u_expr, u_srch, u_match: unicodestring;
i: Integer;
begin
R := TRegExpr.Create;
// Literal expression, literal search.
Memo1.Text := 'Literal expression and literal search:';
R.Expression := LIT_EXPR;
if R.Exec(LIT_SRCH) then begin
Memo1.Lines.Add(FOUND);
for i := 0 to 9 do begin
match := string(R.Match[i]);
if match '' then
Memo1.Lines.Add(' '+i.ToString + ': ' + match);
end;
end
else
Memo1.Lines.Add(NOT_FOUND);
// Literal expression, search in string.
Memo1.Lines.Add(LineEnding + 'Literal expression, search in string:');
srch := 'The range is ±90.0° ';
if R.Exec(srch) then begin
Memo1.Lines.Add(FOUND);
for i := 0 to 9 do begin
match := R.Match[i];
if match '' then
Memo1.Lines.Add(' '+i.ToString + ': ' + match);
end;
end
else
Memo1.Lines.Add(NOT_FOUND);
// Expression, search in string.
Memo1.Lines.Add(LineEnding + 'Expression and search both in
strings:');
expr := LIT_EXPR;
srch := LIT_SRCH;
R.Expression := expr;
if R.Exec(srch) then begin
Memo1.Lines.Add(FOUND);
for i := 0 to 9 do begin
match := R.Match[i];
if match '' then
Memo1.Lines.Add(' '+i.ToString + ': ' + match);
end;
end
else
Memo1.Lines.Add(NOT_FOUND);
// Using unicode strings.
Memo1.Lines.Add(LineEnding + 'Expression and search both in
Unicode strings:');
u_expr := LIT_EXPR;
u_srch := LIT_SRCH;
R.Expression := u_expr;
if R.Exec(u_srch) then begin
Memo1.Lines.Add(FOUND);
for i := 0 to 9 do begin
u_match := R.Match[i];
if u_match '' then
Memo1.Lines.Add(' '+i.ToString + ': ' + u_match);
end;
end
else
Memo1.Lines.Add(NOT_FOUND);
end;
end.
</code>--- Lazarus 2.2.2 FPC 3.2.2 ---
Literal expression and literal search:
Matches found:
0: ±90.0°
1: ±
2: .0
3: °
Literal expression, search in string:
Matches found:
0: ±90.0°
1: ±
2: .0
3: °
Expression and search both in strings:
Matches found:
0: ±90.0°
1: ±
2: .0
3: °
Expression and search both in Unicode strings:
Matches found:
0: ±90.0°
1: ±
2: .0
3: °
--- Lazarus 2.3.0 (rev main-2_3-1940-g01d6b3230d) FPC 3.3.1 i386-win32-win32/win64
Literal expression and literal search:
Matches found:
0: ±90.0°
1: ±
2: .0
3: °
Literal expression, search in string:
No match found
Expression and search both in strings:
Matches found:
0: ±90.0°
1: ±
2: .0
3: °
Expression and search both in Unicode strings:
Matches found:
0: ±90.0°
1: ±
2: .0
3: °
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Regards
Russ