Re: Locales and regular expressions

[Erik Olsson <erik.eo.olsson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Last time I looked (http://archive.midrange.com/c400-l/201011/msg00007.html) regerror() was an exception however and blatantly ignored the locale setting and always used CCSID 37. Nice touch. 



On 23 mar 2013, at 07:16, Tim Bronski <tim.bronski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks Thomas. It looks like the conversion of the value is my only 
> option. I was hoping for a "locale" safe version or option since the 
> original string has an associated mac and I didn't want a "temp" stored 
> version.
> Thanks.
>
> On 3/23/2013 1:30 PM, Thomas Raddatz wrote:
> > The regular expression functions belongs the group of function that are
> > locale sensitive. From the IBM i Information Center:
> >
> > "Locale Sensitive: The behavior of this function might be affected by the
> > LC_CTYPE and LC_COLLATE categories of the current locale. This function is
> > not available when LOCALETYPE(*CLD) is specified on the compilation
> > command. For more information, see Understanding CCSIDs and Locales."
> >
> > I always convert the pattern and the value to the CCSID of the current
> > locale using ...
> >
> >    nl_langinfo(CODESET) to get the CCSID
> >
> >    QtqIconvOpen(), iconv() and iconv_close() to convert the CCSID
> >
> >
> > ... before I use regcomp(), regexec() and regfree() to apply the regular
> > expression to the value.
> >
> > Thomas.
> >
> >
> > Am 22.03.2013 15:24, schrieb Tim Bronski:
> > > I've cross posted this to the C list but it doesn't get much traffic so
> > > this question might get more of an audience here. I've been having
> > > issues with using regular expressions (as in a sscanf function) where
> > > the locale might vary. I've looked all over the ibm site but there's
> > > very little with any definition on exactly what effect locales have on
> > > expression statements. How do I locale protect my expressions?
>
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