{"id":1692,"date":"2008-03-24T00:08:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T04:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/24\/regexkitlite\/"},"modified":"2008-03-24T00:11:46","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T04:11:46","slug":"regexkitlite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/24\/regexkitlite\/","title":{"rendered":"RegexKitLite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/regexkit.sourceforge.net\/#RegexKitLite\">RegexKitLite<\/a>, from the developer of <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/10\/regexkit\/\">RegexKit<\/a>, uses the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icu-project.org\/\">ICU<\/a> engine instead of <a href=\"http:\/\/pcre.org\">PCRE<\/a> and has a <a href=\"http:\/\/regexkit.sourceforge.net\/RegexKitLite\/index.html\">highly simplified API<\/a>. This makes it <em>very<\/em> small (since ICU is built into Mac OS X) and gives it better support for Unicode. It&rsquo;s also potentially more efficient, since ICU can often use an NSString&rsquo;s UTF-16 buffer rather than creating a separate UTF-8 buffer, as would be required for PCRE. <a href=\"http:\/\/regexkit.sourceforge.net\/RegexKitLite\/index.html#ICURegularExpressionSyntax\">ICU&rsquo;s regular expression syntax<\/a> is not as rich as <a href=\"http:\/\/pcre.org\/pcre.txt\">PCRE&rsquo;s<\/a>, however.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RegexKitLite, from the developer of RegexKit, uses the ICU engine instead of PCRE and has a highly simplified API. This makes it very small (since ICU is built into Mac OS X) and gives it better support for Unicode. It&rsquo;s also potentially more efficient, since ICU can often use an NSString&rsquo;s UTF-16 buffer rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}