QRegExp documentation

[cic]

Hi, it must be an easy to solve problem i hope

what is the regular expression for the pattern:

G|xxxx - a capital letter | arbitrary word

I used the patterns below but they failed:

rule.pattern = QRegExp("\\b([A-Z])\\|([a-z])\\s");
 
or
 
rule.pattern = QRegExp("\\b([A-Z])|([a-z])\\s");

rule.pattern = QRegExp("\\b([A-Z])\\|([a-z])\\s");

or

rule.pattern = QRegExp("\\b([A-Z])|([a-z])\\s");

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the thing is i have no idea how to express vertical bar in this case.
anyone can help?

ps: i find the documentation from QRegExp is somehow not clearly explain all the cases.
is there any better tutorials for that?

[stampede]

Vertical bar in your code is ok, but [a-z] is not "arbitraty word", for that you can use \w+ which means "any word character one or more times":

#include <QRegExp>
#include <QStringList>
#include <QDebug>
 
int main(){
	QRegExp rx("^([A-Z])\\|(\\w+)$");
	QStringList str = QStringList() << "G|word" << "_K|another" << "z|maybethis" << "P|this_one_for_sure" << "Z|!@#";
	foreach (QString s, str){
		if (rx.indexIn(s) > -1){
			qDebug() << rx.capturedTexts();
		}
	}
	return 0;
}

#include <QRegExp>
#include <QStringList>
#include <QDebug>

int main(){
	QRegExp rx("^([A-Z])\\|(\\w+)$");
	QStringList str = QStringList() << "G|word" << "_K|another" << "z|maybethis" << "P|this_one_for_sure" << "Z|!@#";
	foreach (QString s, str){
		if (rx.indexIn(s) > -1){
			qDebug() << rx.capturedTexts();
		}
	}
	return 0;
}

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