How to check if string matches a regular expression in objective-c?

Question

since regular exressions are not supported in Cocoa I find RegexKitLite very usefull. But all examples extract matching strings.

I just want to test if a string matches

Answer 1

Use the -isMatchedByRegex: method.

if([someString isMatchedByRegex:@"^[0-9a-fA-F]+:"] == YES) { NSLog(@"Matched!\n"); }