Mark, I am fairly new to RegEx, but I can tell you we did this on our University's site when I was in college. We allowed the different departments to submit formatted text using an assortment of HTML tags that we specified. We used RegEx to do this, and did not notice a performace hit at all.
For what that's worth... Mike -----Original Message----- From: Mark Warrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 3:50 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: regular expression help Hello, I've got a form field in which I want to allow people to enter HTML tags (formatted stories for the web), but only a limited set of them such as heading, bold, and italic tags so that they don't mess up the overall formatting of the page. What I'd like to do is automatically strip out any other HTML tag (or JavaScript, CSS, DHTML, etc.) from the submission but leave the safe tags. I'm thinking that using a regular expression string to do this would be the way to go, however there is something to consider about that idea. The data ends up in an NTEXT field in the SQL database which is capable of storing a lot of data and I suspect people might be typing as much as a few pages of text into this field. So I'm worried that a regular expression might take too long to parse through all the entered text. Perhaps I'm missing something obvious here. Anyone have any suggestions? ---mark ======================================================== Mark Warrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Founder, Fusioneers.com / CTO, ZapConnect.com Phone: 714-547-5386 / 714-667-0203 / Efax: 801-730-7289 http://www.warrick.net / http://www.fusioneers.com http://www.zapconnect.com ICQ: 125160 AIM: markwarric Yahoo: Serengeti ======================================================== ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm 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
