Is there an Objective-C/C libary that can do code syntax highlighting?

Question

Of course, I don't actually need it to highlight anything, I'll take care of that, however, it would be great if there would be a library that can parse text and can in an abstract manner tell me which words should I highlight and how should I treat them (as functions, vars, etc). I think (not sure) Clang would be an option, but seems really heavy duty for my purposes.

Answer 1

Yes libclang is the way to go.

Watch this video (captured at 2010 LLVM Developers' Meeting) for more info, which presents the libclang API and should give you a really good overview of how to use the API.

You may probably be interested in the others videos here too.