Perfect. Works great now. Matthew, thanks for clarifying my erroroneous format and thanks to Ade for the tip as well. Both were needed!
TA, Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 8:09 AM Subject: Re: Regex Help > ^ is start of string, $ is end of string, so it looks like you've got these > aroung the wrong way. Secondly, you want everything between but not > including the <%--- ---%> right? So put the parentheses *inside* > > How about this: > result = REreplace(cfhttp.fileContent,"^.*<%---(.*)---%>.*$","\1") > > > Regards, > Matthew Walker > Electric Sheep Web > http://www.electricsheep.co.nz/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Tangorre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 12:02 AM > Subject: Regex Help > > > > Good Morning. > > > > A day or so ao I got some help with a regular expression and when I wrote > a sample input string to match against it worked fine, howvever I failed to > realize I have to HTMLCodeFormat the results from the http post in order to > get a string to use. The Regex does not seem to work with the > HTMLCodeFormat(cfhhtp.fileContent) string.... I was testing with a simple > string I came up with to mimic the results form the post. Anyways, here is > the string returned from the http post: > > > > > <html><head><title>TransGatewayAPI</title></head><body><%---StartParseRC=0|S > topParse---%></body></html> > > This is the regex I was trying to use:result = > REreplace(cfhttp.fileContent,"$.*(<%---.*---%>).*^","\1")nothing is found > though. What I am trying to do is strip out everything between the following > two substrings:<%--- and ---%> which would results > in:StartParseRC=0|StopParseCan anyone assist or point out what I am doing > wrong? I am new to regex, so bear with me :-)Thanks, > > > > Mike > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
