Chapter 13. Validation and Regular Expressions

Validation of input data is an important issue that can be handled in an object-oriented way by a combination of Qt classes. This chapter discusses some efficient ways of validating input, including the use of regular expressions.

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Validators

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Regular Expressions

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Regular Expression Validation

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Validators

Validators are nonvisual objects that are attached to input widgets (such as QLineEdit, QSpinBox, and QComboBox) to provide a general framework for checking user input. Qt has an abstract class named QValidator that establishes the interface for all built-in and custom validators.

There are two concrete subclasses that can be used for numeric range checking: QIntValidator and QDoubleValidator ...

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