Version 1.2 released. Corrected and clarified the section in the documentation about adding RegexKitLite to an Xcode project. Also added Xcode 3 DocSet documentation format.
RegexKit is an Objective-C framework for regular expressions:
- Support for Mac OS X Cocoa and GNUstep. Mac OS X 10.4 or later required.
- Mac OS X Universal Binary, including 64-bit support on Mac OS X 10.5.
- No sub-classing required. Seamlessly adds regular expression support to all NSArray, NSData, NSDictionary, NSSet, and NSString Foundation objects with a rich set of Objective-C category additions.
- Unicode enabled. Full Unicode support for NSString objects.
- Extensive, high quality documentation.
- Full source code with a BSD license.
- Uses the BSD licensed PCRE Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library for the regular expression engine.
Tuned for high performance, including such features as:
- Caches the compiled form of the regular expression for speed.
- Multithreading safe, including multiple reader, single writer multithreaded access to the compiled regular expression cache.
- Makes minimal use of heap storage (ie, malloc() and free()), instead allocating most temporary buffer needs dynamically from the stack.
- Uses Core Foundation directly on Mac OS X for additional speed.
Includes support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard:
- 64 bit support. Pre-built for ppc, ppc64, i386, and x86_64.
- Garbage Collection enabled. Complete support for Leopards Garbage Collection feature.
- Integrated Xcode 3.0 documentation. Get real time API information via the Research Assistant.
- Collection of instruments for Instruments.app.
- RegexKit specific DTrace probe points.
Version 1.1 released. Added information about searching mutable strings and clearing the internal cache. Also fixed a bug that could cause strings that require UTF-16 conversion to return incorrect results.
Introducing RegexKitLite - Lightweight Objective-C Regular Expressions for Mac OS X using the ICU Library. Version 1.0 released. Read more here.
Version 0.6.0 Beta released. Upgraded to PCRE 7.6, which includes an important security related bug fix, preliminary support for internationalization, returning NSError objects, and the ability to evaluate multiple regular expressions in a collection concurrently on multiple threads, one per CPU.
Version 0.5.0 Beta released. RegexKit instruments for Instruments.app, RegexKit specific DTrace probes, and regular expression support for NSData objects added.
Version 0.4.0 Beta released. Improved Unicode support and Perl like \u \l \U \L \E case conversion operators for replacement reference strings.
Version 1.2, released on 2008/04/01. Documentation updated and Xcode 3 DocSet documentation added.
See RegexKitLite - Documentation for more information.
| Date | Version | Operating System | Size | File | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008/04/01 | 1.2 | Mac OS X 10.3 and later | 28K | RegexKitLite-1.2.tar.bz2 | bzip2 compressed tar archive |
Version 0.6.0 Beta, released on 2008/01/29. Change highlights:
- Upgraded to PCRE version 7.6, which includes an important security related bug fix.
- Preliminary support for internationalization, though English remains the only provided localization.
- Support for returning NSError objects for error conditions.
- Support for multiple regular expressions in a collection (i.e., NSArray) to be evaluated concurrently on multiple threads, one per CPU.
See Release Information - Release Notes for 0.6.0 Beta for more information.
Note:
| Date | Version | PCRE | Operating System | Architecture | Size | File | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008/01/29 | 0.6.0 Beta | 7.6 | Mac OS X 10.4 and later | ppc, ppc64, i386, x86_64 | 1,695K | RegexKit_0.6.0.dmg.tar | Apple Disk Image inside a .tar |
| Date | Version | PCRE | Operating System | Architecture | Size | File | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007/11/30 | 0.5.0 Beta | 7.4 | Mac OS X 10.4 and later | ppc, ppc64, i386, x86_64 | 1,480K | RegexKit_0.5.0.dmg.tar | Apple Disk Image inside a .tar |
| 2007/11/13 | 0.4.0 Beta | 7.4 | Mac OS X 10.4 and later | ppc, ppc64, i386, x86_64 | 1,389K | RegexKit_0.4.0.dmg.tar | Apple Disk Image inside a .tar |
| 2007/10/31 | 0.3.1 Beta | 7.4 | Mac OS X 10.4 and later | ppc, ppc64, i386, x86_64 | 1,340K | RegexKit_0.3.1.dmg.tar | Apple Disk Image inside a .tar |
| 2007/10/29 | 0.3.0 Beta | 7.4 | Mac OS X 10.4 and later | ppc, ppc64, i386, x86_64 | 1,333K | RegexKit_0.3.0.dmg | Apple Disk Image |
| 2007/10/09 | 0.2.0 Beta | 7.4 | Mac OS X 10.4 and later | Universal, PowerPC and Intel | 412K | RegexKit_0.2.0.tar.bz2 | bzip2 compressed tar archive |
| 2007/08/31 | Alpha | 7.3 | Mac OS X 10.4 and later | Universal, PowerPC and Intel | 412K | RegexKit_ALPHA.tar.bz2 | bzip2 compressed tar archive |
Complete source code for the RegexKit Framework. Includes support for building with GNUstep.
| Date | Version | PCRE | Minimum Development Environment | Size | File | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008/01/29 | 0.6.0 Beta | 7.6 | Xcode 2.4.1 | 655K | RegexKit_0.6.0_source.tar.bz2 | bzip2 compressed tar archive |
| 2007/11/30 | 0.5.0 Beta | 7.4 | Xcode 2.4.1 | 572K | RegexKit_0.5.0_source.tar.bz2 | bzip2 compressed tar archive |
| 2007/11/13 | 0.4.0 Beta | 7.4 | Xcode 2.4.1 | 544K | RegexKit_0.4.0_source.tar.bz2 | bzip2 compressed tar archive |
| 2007/10/31 | 0.3.1 Beta | 7.4 | Xcode 2.4.1 | 518K | RegexKit_0.3.1_source.tar.bz2 | bzip2 compressed tar archive |
| 2007/10/29 | 0.3.0 Beta | 7.4 | Xcode 2.4.1 | 516K | RegexKit_0.3.0_source.tar.bz2 | bzip2 compressed tar archive |
| 2007/10/09 | 0.2.0 Beta | 7.4 | Xcode 2.4.1 | 484K | RegexKit_0.2.0_source.tar.bz2 | bzip2 compressed tar archive |
| 2007/08/31 | Alpha | 7.3 | Xcode 2.4.1 | 655K | RegexKit_source_ALPHA.tar.bz2 | bzip2 compressed tar archive |