You're right. It doesn't work; I did not test it. try listcontains() or findnocase()
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, S. Isaac Dealey wrote: > I thought there was something squirrelly about that expression... I'm > probably still learning regex myself... It's one of those things that really > seems to take a while to grok. > > > S. Isaac Dealey > Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer > > www.turnkey.to > 954-776-0046 > > > This doesn't work in Perl or in CF5. > > > The regex > > [^(this|that)\s] > > is equivalent to > > [^()|sihta\s] > > > [(this|that)\s] and [()|sihta\s] > > will match'hit' 'hat' and '(sh|t)' just as it matches 'this' and 'that'. > > > Remember, the [] grouping structure forms a class. What're inside are > > treated as individual characters, not words/groups/etc. > > > > --Ben Doom > > Programmer & General Lackey > > Moonbow Software > > > : -----Original Message----- > > : From: Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > : Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 1:47 PM > > : To: CF-Talk > > : Subject: Re: regex help > > : > > : > > : m/[^(this|that|\s)]/ig > > : > > : Anything other than --> this that spaces > > : > > : > > : On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Brook wrote: > > : > > : > How do you write a regular expression which checks a string for any > > : > characters/words other than a specified few and returns true if > > : there are > > : > ANY other characters in the string. > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
