On Wednesday 27 July 2011 07:45, Caveat wrote:
> But if you were to make a commercial product that looked through some
> data, picked out the email addresses (whether it uses regular
> expressions or not to achieve that is irrelevant), high-lighted them and
> allowed the user to perform some action
Ah i see !
The regular expression and the usage of grep command does this.
The grep command colorize with red the results.
Also if the text is multiline returns in color only the matches of
regexp.
i bring here, in Gambas, the output style of grep command not for the
colorize part but fo
No, as far as I know they haven't managed (yet! lol) to patent the use
of regular expressions.
You need to read the text of the patent or my summary here:
> recognising stuff (phone numbers, email addresses, web urls) in data,
> > high-lighting it, and allowing a user to interact with it and perf
ok.
But as you say, Apple's lawyers can knock the door of anyone who uses
regular expressions.
Is this true?
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 13:08 +0200, Caveat wrote:
> There is no problem in your code, nor in the mail addresses you show as
> examples, I was merely trying to point out a problem in the pa
There is no problem in your code, nor in the mail addresses you show as
examples, I was merely trying to point out a problem in the patent
system itself.
It seems as if Apple has manged to patent the "novel idea" of
recognising stuff (phone numbers, email addresses, web urls) in data,
high-lightin
sorry but i dont understand where is the patent problem.
There are many regexp which "recognize data" such emails.
So i think here is not the problem.
See for example
http://regexlib.com/Search.aspx?k=email&c=-1&m=-1&ps=20
If you mean the @yahoo.com emails this is an example.
i can change it l
I hope you realise that the work you're doing may result in you
infringing Apple's patent:
U.S. Patent No. 5,946,647 on a "system and method for performing an
action on a structure in computer-generated data" (in its complaint,
Apple provides examples such as the recognition of "phone numbers,
pos
