Re: tokenize needed from Dan Holmsand on 2002-05-25 (public-qt-comments@w3.org from May 2002)

From: Dan Holmsand <dan@eyebee.com>
Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 06:10:24 -0400 (EDT)
To: "Kay, Michael" <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>
CC: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Message-ID: <3CEF610C.5070707@eyebee.com>

Hi Michael,

Kay, Michael wrote:
> I agree we do need the ability to tokenize a string. I'm working on a
> proposal for regular expression handling (it's now on its third iteration)
> which will meet this requirement, although it might be a little heavyweight
> for simple splitting of a space-delimited string. We could look at providing
> a convenience function to make easy cases easy.

Great! Regexp matching/replacing could be useful.

I would love a convenience function, though (preferably working as 
java's StringTokenizer does by default). Regexps inside xpaths inside 
xml might become a bit hairy, syntax wise...

/dan

Received on Saturday, 25 May 2002 13:04:32 UTC