diff --git a/src/corelib/text/qbytearraymatcher.cpp b/src/corelib/text/qbytearraymatcher.cpp
index 4292064de2..ca1791c18b 100644
--- a/src/corelib/text/qbytearraymatcher.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/text/qbytearraymatcher.cpp
@@ -131,7 +131,10 @@ QByteArrayMatcher::QByteArrayMatcher()
 QByteArrayMatcher::QByteArrayMatcher(const char *pattern, qsizetype length) : d(nullptr)
 {
     p.p = reinterpret_cast<const uchar *>(pattern);
-    p.l = length;
+    if (length < 0)
+        p.l = qstrlen(pattern);
+    else
+        p.l = length;
     bm_init_skiptable(p.p, p.l, p.q_skiptable);
 }
 
@@ -147,6 +150,15 @@ QByteArrayMatcher::QByteArrayMatcher(const QByteArray &pattern)
     bm_init_skiptable(p.p, p.l, p.q_skiptable);
 }
 
+/*!
+    \fn QByteArrayMatcher::QByteArrayMatcher(QByteArrayView pattern)
+    \since 6.3
+    \overload
+
+    Constructs a byte array matcher that will search for \a pattern.
+    Call indexIn() to perform a search.
+*/
+
 /*!
     Copies the \a other byte array matcher to this byte array matcher.
 */
@@ -218,6 +230,18 @@ qsizetype QByteArrayMatcher::indexIn(const char *str, qsizetype len, qsizetype f
                    p.p, p.l, p.q_skiptable);
 }
 
+/*!
+    \fn qsizetype QByteArrayMatcher::indexIn(QByteArrayView data, qsizetype from) const
+    \since 6.3
+    \overload
+
+    Searches the byte array \a view, from byte position \a from (default
+    0, i.e. from the first byte), for the byte array pattern() that
+    was set in the constructor or in the most recent call to
+    setPattern(). Returns the position where the pattern() matched in
+    \a data, or -1 if no match was found.
+*/
+
 /*!
     \fn QByteArray QByteArrayMatcher::pattern() const
 
diff --git a/src/corelib/text/qbytearraymatcher.h b/src/corelib/text/qbytearraymatcher.h
index db6c06128c..d9ea638500 100644
--- a/src/corelib/text/qbytearraymatcher.h
+++ b/src/corelib/text/qbytearraymatcher.h
@@ -54,7 +54,10 @@ class Q_CORE_EXPORT QByteArrayMatcher
 public:
     QByteArrayMatcher();
     explicit QByteArrayMatcher(const QByteArray &pattern);
-    explicit QByteArrayMatcher(const char *pattern, qsizetype length);
+    explicit QByteArrayMatcher(QByteArrayView pattern)
+        : QByteArrayMatcher(pattern.data(), pattern.size())
+    {}
+    explicit QByteArrayMatcher(const char *pattern, qsizetype length = -1);
     QByteArrayMatcher(const QByteArrayMatcher &other);
     ~QByteArrayMatcher();
 
@@ -64,6 +67,10 @@ public:
 
     qsizetype indexIn(const QByteArray &ba, qsizetype from = 0) const;
     qsizetype indexIn(const char *str, qsizetype len, qsizetype from = 0) const;
+    qsizetype indexIn(QByteArrayView data, qsizetype from = 0) const
+    {
+        return indexIn(data.data(), data.size(), from);
+    }
     inline QByteArray pattern() const
     {
         if (q_pattern.isNull())