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[Zoltán Balogh <zoltan.balogh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

During the Qt5.3 migration work we  realized that the split() methods 
terminates the process it is used in when the separator is a regular 
expression.

For example:

function split_text()
{ var text_to_split = 'May the 4th be with U'; return 
text_to_split.split(/\s/g); }
[...]
Button {
onClicked:
{ label.text = split_text()[0]; }

This Qt bug bite the UITK's date picker component, the browser and the 
RSS reader app for sure. But there could be many other places where this 
issue causes trouble when Qt5.3 is used.

I hope the upstream will pick up this bug, but in the meantime I suggest 
to use the match() method or other solution instead of the split().

Cheers,

Zoltan